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I used to have a job as one of those robotic arms. The datacenter were I worked had lots of shelves full of tapes, and the computer would beep and display a ta
by bloat 11y ago
I used to have a job as one of those robotic arms.
The datacenter were I worked had lots of shelves full of tapes, and the computer would beep and display a tape number and a drive number. You'd have to jump up, find the tape and put it in the drive.
During the day you were running about constantly trying to keep the thing happy. On the night shift you could sit a watch movies and only get up once or twice an hour.
- chinathrow 11y agoOne of the real robots dropped a tape within a swiss data center on December 24th 2010 and subsequent error states stopped all debit card transaction as a result...
- chkuendig 11y agoon the day everybody was scrambling to get their christmas shopping done. i still remember the chaos (I also had to get some presents...) edit: it was actually in 2000: http://www.boerse-express.com/mobile#/mobile/pages/96409 http://www.boerse-express.com/mobile#/mobile/pages/96409 (german)
- chinathrow 11y agoThanks, too late to edit the post for this typo. The ATMS were dead too.