[OT] Generator testing

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Wed Sep 9 07:30:02 EDT 2009


On 09/08/2009 10:18 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
>   FWIW, I find this topic fascinating, and quite possibly of interest
> to my professional career, so I'd like to hear the stories, too.  :)
>   
One war story. I was a programmer at Burger King a number of years ago
(assembler on PDP-8 BTW). We had 2 diesel generators sitting outside the
building to give us power when the power failed (DUH). One stormy day,
we were in the conference room overlooking the generators, and they
received a direct lightning strike that took out both the generators and
the power.

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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