Gregory's Server@GromBeestje @nixCraft I'm old enough to remember when computers were room sized and parts of it could be on fire while others continued to work relatively fine. There used to be an option to stop disks fast in the event that they were on fire.
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 @GromBeestje @nixCraft I'm old enough to remember when computers were room sized and parts of it could be on fire while others continued to work relatively fine. There used to be an option to stop disks fast in the event that they were on fire. 1 comment
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@ianturton @GromBeestje @nixCraft
I met an IBM 360, which had a big red EMERGENCY switch. We were told to only use it if the machine was on fire.