miken@mirror.TMC.COM (10/19/89)
I am concerned about Pyramid's proximity to the recent earthquake. Did
you suffer any damage?
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Mike Nappo miken@mirror.TMC.COM
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(617)661 - 0777hoyt@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Sir Hoyt) (10/20/89)
In article <232400008@mirror> miken@mirror.TMC.COM writes: >I am concerned about Pyramid's proximity to the recent earthquake. Did >you suffer any damage? 10/19/89 10:45 PTD Well, our machine just panic and I called RTOC, got in first try. Got a call back in ~20 mintues. So it seems as thought RTOC came through ok. -- John H. Pochmara A career is great, UUCP: {sdsu,voder,trwind}!polyslo!hoyt But you can't run your Internet: hoyt@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU fingers through its hair -Graffiti 4/13/83
romain@pyramid.pyramid.com (Romain Kang) (10/20/89)
We consider ourselves lucky. Pyramid came through with mostly superficial damage: crashed machines from a power surge, fallen ceiling tiles, cracked drywall, and some buckled ground-level floors. All production systems were operable, mostly after cycling power. Problems I've heard seem to be mostly in the COS floppy drives in some of our lab machines. In the plant, local power, telephones, and water never suffered more than momentary disruptions. Oh, and one of our 55-gallon fish tanks was knocked over and shattered, but most of its inhabitants miraculously survived... Yesterday morning, there was some question about the safety of Building 1, where RTOC is based, so we were closed yesterday, but RTOC supervisors arranged for service calls to go through to an on-call engineer, as they would on a holiday, and local field engineers were instructed to take up the slack as necessary, especially since AT&T could not guarantee that inbound WATS calls would be completed under the circumstances. However, the Mountain View building inspectors declared B1 fit for habitation, and RTOC is nearly normal today, aside from dealing with backed-up calls that didn't get through yesterday. Certainly, there are personnel who are dealing with property damage, including a number of totalled houses, but we aren't aware of any injuries or fatalities among any Pyramid employees. -- "Eggheads unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks!" -Adlai Stevenson
csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) (10/20/89)
In article <232400008@mirror> miken@mirror.TMC.COM writes: >I am concerned about Pyramid's proximity to the recent earthquake. Did >you suffer any damage? Other than a few dozen ceiling tiles and an aquarium that tipped over (fish rescued by the heroic efforts of a volunteer), no. We were closed Wednesday while the city was inspecting buildings, and also because the commute would have very difficult because of the many bridges, ramps, and overpasses that were closed for inspection. A lot of people worked anyway, and it's pretty much business as usual today. Please note that there was almost no damage in the entire "Silicon Valley" area, including Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and San Jose. Neither Pyramid nor Sun Microsystems even lost electricity, and it appears that decwrl, amdahl, and hplabs were never down or were up within a few hours. For that matter, there was no damage in most of San Francisco, Oakland, Los Gatos, and Santa Cruz. Just a few pockets were damage was severe, and then only to unlucky or poorly constructed buildings. I've watched the national media, and they'd have you thinking the entire Bay Area was collapsed or in flames. Not so. Yes, there was damage; yes, I-880 in Oakland collapsed; yes, something like 200 homes were destroyed. But this *is* a metropolitan area of 8 million people. My own feeling is that Charleston, SC had a much worse time with Hugu than we did with the San Andreas. <csg>
csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) (10/20/89)
In article <88258@pyramid.pyramid.com> I wrote: >My own feeling is that Charleston, SC had a much worse time with Hugu than >we did with the San Andreas. I suppose I'll have to take this back. The estimated damage from Hugo was $4 billion. Now that the seriousness of the damage in Los Gatos and Santa Cruz is understood, the damage from our quake is also estimated at $4 billion. <csg>