'...no one has any other place they can go or get help from'
'Subject: Re: SitRep - Auckland Power Crisis - Wednesday 4th March
All this is great if there are other places to send in help or to go to get
power. I wonder what will happen when such occurances are widespread and no one has any other place they can go or get help from?
Dave Hall
dhall@enteract.com
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 09:46:00 -0600
From: David Hall <dhall@enteract.com>
Reply-To: dhall@enteract.com
To: "'year2000-discuss@year2000.com'" <year2000-discuss@year2000.com>,
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Mark Roberts wrote:
> Day 12
>
> The NZ computer press have contributed a lot of material. See excellent coverage at www.idg.co.nz (Auckland based, some interruptions to service!) and www.infotech.co.nz (Wellington based.) Here are some highlights.
>
> Auckland-based "Computerworld" (working from a garage on the city fringe) has dozens of stories about the blackout. One lead story
> briefly compares it with Y2K but persistently uses the term
> "doomsayers." Reminders that generator power is dirty, and can cause data corruption; and that power supply going up and down can spike your PCs. You still need a UPS - a description of one site, where every morning the power goes down, the UPS kicks in, the lights flicker, the generator roars into life, the UPS re-charges; and in the afternoon the mains power comes back on - the UPS smooths the spike, the generator coughs and dies. The PCs just keep going. UPS dealers are flying in extra stocks to keep up with demand. One ISP reports that they were happy until their UPS died because they hadn't reassessed the load after adding more equipment. Another net company explained their one brief downtime - they had connected equipment to the wrong UPS. (There's no
> point in a disaster plan if you don't test it.)
>
> Notebook PCs are walking out of the door at PC retailers, and cellphone, UPS, fax, and answering machine dealers are very busy.
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