Never push the Big Red Button (New York City subway failure)
Roy
r.engehausen at gmail.com
Thu Sep 16 04:40:28 UTC 2021
Miy story in the late 1970s I was working in a large computer facility
with both mainframes and mil-spec 400hz computers.
Management decided that the EPO should be tested. So we powered down
the disk and tapes. The electrician pressed
the EPO button and NOTHING. Everything kept running.
Turns out a wire had come loose and the fuse in the EPO circuit had blown.
Roy
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