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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 21:37:06 1998
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:00:37 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19981209185754.05616@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>; from "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us> on Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 06:57:54PM -0500
On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 06:57:54PM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> 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.
David Lesher has kindly pointed out to me that I had a backhoe fade of
the brain shortly before posting this message.
Nevermind.
Cheers,
-- jra
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