Howdy,

Not sure what the official HP line is but our old 947, DTC's, etc ran for
several days at 100 F.  No problem and no residuals (later drive failures
or whatever).

HP does have a built in solution in some boxes.  I was in San Francisco
when a tropical storm blew in.  The good hearted operations staff
thoughtfully built a plastic tent over the 3000 in case the roof leaked
and went home.  Really to bad the tape they used as an anchors
pulled loose and enshrouded the running machine.  I have no idea
what the temp got to but the machine decided it had enough and
shut itself down.  The roof never did leak and I had a fit.

Jim Trudeau
Computer Sciences Corp
Harlingen, Tx

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From:   Art Bahrs
Sent:   Tuesday, November 11, 1997 8:49 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Max Temperature?

Oh Wise and Learned Gurus of HP 3000 harware,

     What is the max sustained temperature that an HP 3000 series 957 (Nova Box)
with 2 DTC-48 can withstand safely???

     We lost the computer center Air Conditioner yesterday afternoon... at the
time I shut the system down at 5:05 pm it was 83 degrees in the center.... today
I expect it could get past 90 degrees?

Thanks all :)

Art "situation hopeless, but not desperate... hehehe :)" Bahrs