RE: [WAY OT]: concern over public peering points...
Steve wrote:
water - 8" of it Scary stuff - was that at Murray Hill? My department at Holmdel inherited a computer lab with various Vaxen, and more obvious problem under the raised floor was too much cable to get all the tiles to stay down. The less obvious problems had to do with unbalanced grounding on the power feeds, but at least it was dry.
Edward Lewis wrote:
[Secure building with a Mac FOIRL'd to unsecured building with thinwire; security officer said it was ok]
And it probably was ok, at least if you're allowed to have the Mac with a networking connection to outside at all. The fiber connection means that it's not going to act as an antenna and leak out data that didn't get there from in or very near the Mac. We used printers inside and OCR outside as our data network for nonsensitive data; I tried to buy a paper tape punch and reader but by the late 80s DEC wasn't making those any more :-) Bill Stewart
In message <5AFA5A2C102DAB4692ABC1E87E0780CA089B205E@OCCLUST02EVS1.ugd.att.com> , "Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS" writes:
Steve wrote:
water - 8" of it Scary stuff - was that at Murray Hill?
Yes, in Building 5. There was also a long length of thick coax down the hill to the main complex -- it wasn't easy to get nice, standard fiber in 1982 -- that was the original Murray Hill backbone. Yes, coax between widely-separated buildings -- great for ground loops.... That was the first link in what came to be known as the "wet backbone" -- wet because the cage in the basement containing the repeaters was occasionally flooded with fluids considerably nastier than water... (We won't even discuss the time an electrician accidentally cut through one of the legs of this (thick, yellow, coax) backbone, and decided to splice it with wire nuts and electrical tape. This was cira 1989.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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