AltomareSome neat info about 70s hard drive contaminants.
From the DEC RK05 disk drive maintenance manual (DEC-00-HRK05-C-D)
Elric Erkose@altomare When I was at HP, I heard lore from back in the days when you could smoke in the office. Some guy notorious for smoking cigars walked up to one of the early Winchester drives and exhaled smoke from his cigar into the cabinet. The drive failed.
Captain Bara@zoowar @altomare @soviut
In the computer lab back in 1980, I remember one of the techs there who would always smoke in the lab. Her supervisor told her it would damage the hard drives. She insisted that the drive's air filter would remove the smoke particles. Somehow she was allowed to continue smoking. I don't know if they had any drive failures.
In the computer lab back in 1980, I remember one of the techs there who would always smoke in the lab. Her supervisor told her it would damage the hard drives. She insisted that the drive's air filter would remove the smoke particles. Somehow she was allowed to continue smoking. I don't know if they had any drive failures.
Ian
Collette Lynner@soviut at the time nobody really believed that cigarettes were dangerous.
@collette I think that was mostly willful ignorance; smokers were addicted so they turned a blind eye to the negative health effects.
The term "smokers cough" has existed as long as cigarettes have. While the cancer link came later, it was still pretty obvious that smoking had detrimental health effects.