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Re: Y2K Was: Re: POWER: San Mateo/San Francisco power outage report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Wed Dec 9 19:35:04 1998
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 18:57:54 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199812091619.LAA30557@nrk.com>; from David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com> on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 11:19:46AM -0500
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 11:19:46AM -0500, David Lesher wrote:
> This is topic creeping so I'll close with one thought. Power
> is hard because: unlike TCP/IP bits, when things fall down,
> you gotta get RID of the stuff blowing back in your face NOW,
> or lots of things get turned to smoke. Suppose that when your
> big box of bits stutters; the box feeding you in LA didn't just
> stop, but halted & caught fire...and that meant YOUR box, that
> was picking itself back up, just did likewise.
Hint: AT&T, SS7, 1990.
Cheers,
-- jra
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