17 Oct
2007
17 Oct
'07
9:32 a.m.
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 12:22, Chuck Guzis wrote:
One of the reasons that I don't really want one of
the old 60's era
big iron mainframes (even if I could find one) is related to this.
CDC Sunnyvale did not have a backup power supply for their machines.
So, when power went, the automatic switch would switch over to--
nothing. When the onion fields in Moffet Park started giving way to
tilt-ups, power outages were frequent. When the lights went out and
that awful silence took possession of the machine floor, you packed
up your stuff and left. The CE's would probably be repairing the
dmanage to the machines for the rest of the day--and perhaps for the
next several days.
So what kind of problems were caused by the power outages? I assume
that these are hardwar faults, not software-related things (like
filesystems that were screwed up after the outage, etc).
Pat
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