Blast from the past - superheated boiler explodes

jim_14

Dont know if this has been posted before, but an interesting read



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1962 boiler explosion at NY Telephone building in Inwood/Wash Heights

Sal Santamaura

Small world

In 1962 I was nine years old and completely oblivious to things in the news like that explosion.



Years later, during the summer between junior and senior of my college electrical engineering education, I had a job with IBM doing field work.  Almost a week of it was spent in the computer room of New York Telephone's 5030 Broadway facility.  We reconfigured their IBM 360 mainframe + peripherals billing system.  The amount of heavy cabling to and from tape drives that I dragged and repaired under raised flooring was astounding.  Chain-based line printers too.  There was never any mention of the 1962 explosion.