OK. Here's mine. It says more about the VP of the S&L I was working for than anything else. Our computer center was in a shared building with another occupant. They had an electrician doing some work for them. In doing his work he electrocutes himself and gets knocked across a parking lot. Luckily it doesn't kill him, but it still sends him off to the hospital and takes our data center down for an hour. As I said, it was a bank, and so at the next morning's status meeting the VP asks what happened. The OPS manager tells him an electrician for the other company got electrocuted. VP doesn't ask if the guy was hurt or killed, just "What are you going to do to prevent that from happening again?" We told him we could get a UPS. A few days later we tell him the ballpark figure for a UPS and he said, "Well don't let him do it again."
Chris Blaicher Technical Architect Software Development Syncsort Incorporated 50 Tice Boulevard, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677 P: 201-930-8234 | M: 512-627-3803 E: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 1:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre OK, my tale of ancient electricity. Early '80s, NCR minicomputer (size of a large refrigerator) installed 3 feet in front of main breaker box to computer room. NCR was on site doing maintenance work inside the computer so skins were off when the electricians decided they needed to do some work on the breaker box so they had the front off it. Whatever they were doing, they managed to drop one of the live street feeds out of the breaker box and it fell into the open computer, striking the back plane. 3 inch long black burn mark on back plane, and fried all but 1 of the logic boards in the machine. Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Monday, December 14, 2015 10:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: Electrician cuts wrong wire and downs 25,000 square foot data centre And since we're talking electricity this reminded me of the time a large possum decided to crawl into some electrical boxes and die for some reason (this was well inside the building). The body was discovered after a while by odor, and people thought he could not be removed safely without cutting off power to about half the datacenter. I remember managers asking us what was connected to what so they would have an idea of what servers would go down, but I can't remember if they eventually removed him by shutting down power or by just being very careful. The big guy was laying right above some 3-phase copper cables that were each about an inch in diameter - possibly the lines coming directly from the power company. The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, distribution, copying, or any action taken or action omitted in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ________________________________ ATTENTION: ----- The information contained in this message (including any files transmitted with this message) may contain proprietary, trade secret or other confidential and/or legally privileged information. Any pricing information contained in this message or in any files transmitted with this message is always confidential and cannot be shared with any third parties without prior written approval from Syncsort. This message is intended to be read only by the individual or entity to whom it is addressed or by their designee. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are on notice that any use, disclosure, copying or distribution of this message, in any form, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and/or Syncsort and destroy all copies of this message in your possession, custody or control. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
