Posts by Sleeper

Tech support chap solved knotty disk failure problem by staring at the floor

Re: "vintage" ads

Here's a picture and write up

https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/52126/Trivector-Triton-3/

We have redundancy, we have batteries, what could possibly go wrong?

Re: Almost

I was an anaesthetist at a hospital on the outskirts of London.

The power supply was obviously a concern should it fail. Once a digger went through the mains cable and the backup generator kicked in. So far so good for emergency plans.

Then the generator got updated and testing showed that all worked, but getting back on to mains supply didn't work well. As I understood it from the Works department it was to do with the alignment of the current phases. Many months later the problem was resolved by software and other tweaks.

So a safe hospital one might think...?

Then one night the local scrap metal dealers took away the thick electrical cable from the emergency generator to the hospital.

Not exactly the kind of housekeeping you want when it means the hotel's server uptime is scrubbed clean

Re: The cleaner did it.

The cleaner and the Intensive care unit is great urban myth I.e. unplugging the equipment to use a vacuum cleaner.

1. All ventilators have built in alarms for power failure and patient disconnection, pressure aberations, etc that arouse even the near dead.

2. ITUs work around the clock with a nurse by each bed and a supervisor overseeing the overall management.

3. Cleaning is lots of wiping and mopping...not vacuuming.

QED. [Long time Intensivist]