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Did I or did I not ask you to double-check that the socket was on? Now I've driven 15 miles, what have we found?

SloppyJesse
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Re: Sadly...

"Another power supply one at the time involved an IBM PS/2 Model 50. They had a known fault that the PSUs would fail if they were switched* off and on again too quickly or if there was a brief interruption in power."

My first part time job I got roped into helping admin the till system, including performing the weekly failover test. Now I know why the instruction to wait 5 minutes before powering back on was in bold and underlined!

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