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Old 03-06-2010, 08:52 PM
raymr raymr is offline
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I worked with the IBM 3380 units which came a little later. The cabinets were the size of a full-size fridge, and when a disk crashed it was pretty bad. Two IBM engineers had to come on site to replace the disk assemblies because they were so heavy, and it took hours to do.


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