My first exposure to business computing was when I worked for a major high street retailler in the late 80's.
Our tills and stock system was tied together with a couple of mirrored Compaq PCs acting as servers.
This system was pretty reliable, with very little downtown until suddenly the servers started glitching, sometimes it was the one on the left, sometimes the one on the right. The glitches would void any transaction happening at the time of the glitch. These glitches rarely resulted in a full scale crash, just a minor hiccup that cancelled any inprocess jobs on the database.
The second time this happened we called in the IT bods from Head Office. They ran tests, installed power conditioners, checked logs, scratched heads, but the glitches never occured when they were on site, so they couldn't trace their cause.
They called in Compaq's engineers, who did the same tests, and couldn't find any cause, until just as they were about to pack up, a glitch occurred.
One of the engineers was looking towards the door as it happened, and saw the possible cause; the store manager walked past, and as she did, her analogue cordless phone rang, and she answered it, the EMP, small as it was, seemed to be enough to interupt the nearest server.
The solution, swap her phone for a new DECT phone...