At University of Waterloo, we had a direct feed to Waterloo North Hydro. Since power lines are generally underground in Ontario, power is pretty stable in general; having a direct feed meant we never had to worry about it (well, there was allegedly a motor-generator in a sub-basement, but nobody I knew had ever actually SEEN it, and the rumor was that the first time they'd tried to run it, the crankshaft failed and they then realized they'd built a building on top of it and had no way to remove it for servicing).
One day we lost power for several hours. The 4341s (yes, this was a while ago!) did OK, but I heard that some of the smaller machines in various departments had failed spectacularly, as in sparks and blown boards. A cow-orker later confided to me that his roommate worked at Waterloo North Hydro and had been responsible: he'd been reconfiguring some stuff and sent 10,000 volts (or some such huge number) down the feed by mistake. Oops... -- ...phsiii Phil Smith III p...@voltage.com<mailto:p...@voltage.com> Voltage Security, Inc. www.voltage.com<http://www.voltage.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
