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Article #210964Re: IBM 9020 FAA/ATC Systems from 1960's
From: ab... Heinz W. Wiggeshoff
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 02:57
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 02:57
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John Varela (jav...@earthlink.net) writes: > ... > 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. So for once in a long time, the burghers saw the night sky in all its glory, plus the blue fairies along the runways, and the twinkling of aircraft wing lights as they arrived or left. How romantic. Was there a run on the maternity ward nine months later?
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