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Ah, night shift in the 1970s. Ciggies, hipflasks, ADVENT... and fault-prone disk drives the size of washing machines

Jason Bloomberg Silver badge
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junior operators mounting dodgy disk-packs on multiple drive units causing mass-destruction

Had an actual DEC engineer do that at one place I worked. Loaded a diagnostics platter in one drive, wouldn't work, tried the other, game over.

His saving grace was he had two new head units delivered, installed, and whatever the original problem was resolved, before going home time.

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