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Classic WTF: Server Room Fans and More Fun

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Re: Classic WTF: Server Room Fans and More Fun

#11

Goodness. I wish I had a cameraphone in the 90s. There were tons of data centers, IT rooms, telco, labs, meetme rooms, sewers, all done at the seat of your pants.

and it worked. Something to keep in mind whenever your boss won't let you requisition a whatever.

Re: Classic WTF: Server Room Fans and More Fun

#13
post #5

When I was a operator at a computer room (early 80s) with 3 Wang VS Systems and a couple of 2200 systems and multiple large line printers. The company had the cheapest AC Systems installed and no raised floors, all wires would drop down from the ceiling instead. So in the summer time, the room would sometimes be well above 90F (32C). When that happened we had to have multiple large fans brought in. To add to that, th…

And here we have first-hand testimony of early datacenters wasting perfectly good water!
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