🚀 go-pugleaf

John Varela wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 20:53:49, ja...@jata-mj.net (Julian Thomas) wrote:
> 
> > My favorite 9020 story was about the day of the great blackout (was this
> > 1965?) when earlier that day they had hooked up the UPS feature (it had a
> > different name then), tested it, and then disconnected it again - before
> > the blackout hit Poughkeepsie.
> 
> I don't know what incident you're referring to.  The one I know of occurred at
> the Denver ARTCC in Longmont, CO.  They were running system tests, which
> involved a lot more than the 9020: specifically, some 20 or 30 Raytheon Plan
> View Display radar consoles and their central equipment (I forget if that was
> a 9020E or Raytheon) as well as sector terminals (Controller Update Equipment
> = CUE), printers, etc.  This would have been around 1970.
> 
> One night when they were running a test, the headquarters guy on site, a
> fellow named Chick Wright, decided to test the UPS, so he threw the system off
> of local power.  The batteries picked up the load while the diesels fired up
> and took over.  So everything worked except for one thing: the back EMF from
> the sudden removal of all that load blacked out the entire town of Longmont.
> 
> At least, that's the story that came back East.
> 
Yeah, but at least the *computer* kept running and did *not* lose any data.
I guess it's like the little Martian with the Roman helmet who said: 
"I am going to destroy the Earth because it obscures my view of Venus."

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