[rescue] Mainframe on eBay
Sridhar Ayengar
ploopster at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 17:29:07 CDT 2005
Peter wrote:
> Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
>>Nope. I managed to survive the Great Eastern Blackout with it.
>>Separate UPS and all.
>
>
> Your UPS outlasts your power outages? Wow.
I get less than one power outage per year, on average. I'm in the New
York area. The grid here is more fault-tolerant than average.
> Mine seems to be mostly a waste of space. Until recently, I've always
> lived in cities that have had very reliable power, but now I'm in
> semirural Warwickshire it flops up and down with the weather. Although
> to be fair, it's been over a year since the grid went down for longer
> than the UPS could manage.
This machine was the last one still running. I had shut everything else
down. A single headless desktop machine on a 2.2kVA UPS with multiple
battery packs lasts quite a while.
> The main culprit seems to be My landlord who I share a fusebox with.
> He has an irritating habit of rescuing household appliances that were
> thrown out by their previous owners for a reason. Tonight's power cut
> and subsequent reboot of mooli.org.uk was thanks to an electric fire
> that had been pulled out of damp storage.
This is one of the reasons I bought a house instead of renting. 8-)
> In summary: Rescuing VAX computers, good. Rescuing VAX vacuum
> cleaners, bad :)
Depends on the vacuum cleaner, I guess. 8-)
Peace... Sridhar
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