Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!think!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!UTKVM1.BITNET!PB5840 From: PB5840@UTKVM1.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: BITNET mail follows Message-ID: <8707181651.AA13205@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 13:08:08 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8707181651.AA13205 Posted: Sat Jul 18 13:08:08 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 01:03:36 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 32 Date: 16 July 1987, 09:03:20 LCL From: Mike Newman x6755 PB5840 at UTKVM1 SMC 200 To: INFO-VAX at SRI-KL.ARPA cc: Faye Muly MULY at UTKCS1 >has anyone ever witnessed a halon discharge? what actually happens in the room? >are people knocked down? are raised floor tiles lifted? are suspended ceiling >tiles blown out? are temporary walls knocked out? is the planet moved from its >orbit? > >no one here has actually witnessed a halon discharge. we only know that it >costs $3000 (at least) to recharge our system. The Center for Computer Integrated Engineering and Manufacturing at the University of Tennesse at Knoxville installed a halon discharge system in their computing facility. They required the installer to set the thing off (how else do you know it really works?). The installer filled the tank with a gas that would be visible, and they videotaped the discharge. If anyone is coming through Knoxville and would like to see the facility (and the videotape), they can contact Dean William T. Snyder 124 Perkins Hall The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee 37996 (615)-974-5321 Ms. Faye Muly is the System Manager for the CCIEM facility and can be reached at MULY@UTKCS1.BITNET.