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The "Success" stories so far seem to deal with the durability of the series III
or the ease of powerfail recovery. Well, here's another along the same lines.

When I was working for a Telecommunications company in California, part of my
job was to consolidate all the HP3000s (mostly series IIIs, 48s and 70s) into
one room. However, for various reasons, one series III had to remain in a
remote building across a road. One morning, after a horrendous downpour the
night before, I wandered over to the remote site and couldn't believe my eyes
when I walked into the room. During the night, a leak had developed in the roof
and water had poured onto the ceiling tiles. They had disintegrated and fallen
through onto the CPU and its disk drives below. There was water all over the
floor and bits of ceiling tiles all over the series III but somehow, the system
was still humming away quite happily. They don't make them like that any more !

Cheers,

John Dunlop