Mullen, Patrick wrote:
>Yes it was a government site (Elardus would know them), and yes the electrical
>work was done by a lowest bid contractor.
Ouch! You're gossiping about me? ;-D ;-D ;-D
Never mind, I don't care if you're discussing me.
Now getting the facts straightened out:
I'm workin
Another story: once upona a time we had some "not very well" UPS. The
only ONE UPS. My manager asked me what to do get better reliability
(BTW: my primary profession is electrician, than means engineer or
power, electricity etc. with master degree).
Not to mention secondary UPS was not an optio
Yeah, moldy oldy-we were doing upgrade and needed another three phase box.
So electricians came over to
check planned wiring and master electrician told apprentice to go check
phases. We were in the hall watching the movers and hear this za from
the power room. We were headed that way an
Ours of more modern and not as dramatic. Early 2000s. UPS caught fire at the
beginning of summer. We spent all summer without a UPS and frequent visits by
electricians installing new equipment. For a while, it seems like all they had
to do was open a panel and power would drop to the server room
> 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?"
A real people person. I've worked for quite a few like that.
Bob Shannon
Rocket Software
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Of Pommier, Rex
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OK, my tale of ancient electricity. Early '80s, NCR minicomputer (size of a
large refrigerator) installed 3 feet in fr
oards in the machine.
Rex
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> I remember an incident when I was in Atlanta.
>
> We had a new, a
Just goes to show you that there ain't no test like production.
Sent from iPhone - small keyboard fat fingers - expect spellinf errots.
> On Dec 14, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Ken Hume wrote:
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> I remember an incident when I was in Atlanta.
>
> We had a new, actually our first, UPS installed. Ev
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I remember an incident when I was in Atlanta.
We had a new, actually our first, UPS installed. Everything was completed and
hooked up.
The electricians decided to test it in the MIDDLE of the WEEK
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I remember an incident when I was in Atlanta.
We had a new, actuall
I remember an incident when I was in Atlanta.
We had a new, actually our first, UPS installed. Everything was
completed and hooked up.
The electricians decided to test it in the MIDDLE of the WEEK DAY and
WITHOUT telling anyone.
Guess what happened Yep. Entire data center was down f
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 4:46 PM, Ed Finnell <
000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> We had a couple of Halon oops as well. One was arc welder in boiler room
> with exhaust into the print shop.
> Other was Halon service. Test was wired incorrectly. Test meant DISCHARGE.
> And thi
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W dniu 2015-12-12 o 22:57, Ed Gould pisze:
> h
In 2012 I was at a data center in Colorado where we were upgrading them from
OS/390 2.10 to z/OS 1.13 and simultaneously replacing their 9672 with a z/114.
We had just completed the "2 weeks in production" period for the z/114 and was
going so well that the site decided to have the 9672 removed
tony.j.new...@btinternet.com writes:
> This happend to us, 3380 continued to write x'00' over VM byte
> allocation map on cyl 0.
Original CMS filesystem from the mid-60s almost had a fix for this
... updated filesysem control information was written to new locations
... and then the MFD was rewrit
My 'why' did any disk packs get damaged was never answered, or I've
forgotten. I do know when I visited a few days later in the IBM FE's office
was at lease one disk pack and either a couple heads and other parts.
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler
wrote:
> p...@petelancashire
We had a couple of Halon oops as well. One was arc welder in boiler room
with exhaust into the print shop.
Other was Halon service. Test was wired incorrectly. Test meant DISCHARGE.
And this was just couple weeks after the $45 per pound surtax. Life and
times
In a message dated 12/13/
the doors would drop power like they were supposed to.
Linda
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p...@petelancashire.com (Pete Lancashire) writes:
> Showing my age
>
> I worked for Burroughs as an engineering technician.
>
> A customer with 360/65 instantaneous loss of power. I was there only for a
> couple hours to drop off some equipment. Later heard they lost a couple
> disk packs.
s
Showing my age
I worked for Burroughs as an engineering technician.
A customer with 360/65 instantaneous loss of power. I was there only for a
couple hours to drop off some equipment. Later heard they lost a couple
disk packs.
Not IBM but Burroughs B6500, B4700, B3500, B1700 in one room. W
W dniu 2015-12-12 o 22:57, Ed Gould pisze:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/11/electrician_cuts_the_wrong_wire_and_brings_down_25000_square_feet_of_data_centre/
Long time ago I experienced the silence in the server room. It was also
electrician mistake followed by panic moves of my collea
Ed Gould wrote:
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/11/electrician_cuts_the_wrong_wire_and_brings_down_25000_square_feet_of_data_centre/
Cool, what a super great war story! Shame that person, "JF", handed in his
notice despite being innocent. Granted, he should asked the management what
would
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/11/
electrician_cuts_the_wrong_wire_and_brings_down_25000_square_feet_of_dat
a_centre/
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