Mike Loewen wrote:
We had a 2 hour outage on the Air Defense computer
system at McChord
back in the 80's, because some Lieutenant managed to trigger the Halon
system. Not only did it shut off power to the system, but it tripped
dampers in the air conditioning system which had to be reset by hand.
Not army-related, but the same thing happened to my company's datacenter
a decade ago -- some idiot marketing type decided to lead a tour group
through the datacenter to impress them with all the blinkenlights. A
tour group!!! So one woman couldn't figure out how to operate a
doorknob to leave, and, thinking it was the opening mechanism, lifted
the plexiglass case next to the door and pressed the giant red button.
Immediately, the datacenter -- an entire floor of our building -- goes
dark and silent, and then everyone is scrambling to get out in the next
30 seconds because we don't know if the haylon is going to go off with
us locked inside. (Thankfully, it didn't; the button was an emergency
power shutoff only.)
A year later, the marketing guy was eventually let go and simultaneously
sued because he was transferring corporate information to competitors.
Damn idiot...
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