Hmmmmm....50KW: given (presumably) this device will require more than 50Kw in supply power, that will be some alternator under the bonnet (hood)?
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This reminds me of Field Service with DEC in the late 70s. I was sent to a customer who had not had a PDP mini for very long. In I go to do The Required and, having completed another Miracle In The Field, I lent up against the window sill to ring the Office. After a while, I could not understand why I was beginning to feel whoozy with the wall mounted aircon exhaust blasting up directly at me. Then I realised: the exhaust was full of neat nicotine due, I suspected at the time, to the aircon filters being completely clogged up with office muck - including nicotine due to the chain-smoking women in said office. (This happened despite the customer being told not to mix smoke and the Mini in the same room - remember this was the 70s.) The customer was given 'a word'......
Biting the hand that feeds IT
