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Disk drive fired 'Frisbees of death' across data centre after storage admin crossed his wires

SomeoneInDelaware

Burroughs tape drive

I was cleaning tape heads one day when one of the tape drives went into fast rewind, the door came down and the latch released the tape reel. Anyone want to rewind 2400 feet of mag tape onto a reel?

No, me either.... :-)

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