RE: 1 minutes: best downtime story
- From: "MacGregor, Ian A." <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:30:09 -0700
This may be apocryphal. It was related to me by someone who worked for CSC.
It seems at one of their facilities a few times a year some of the processing
would stop. They were finally able to attribute it to public transportation
and the angle of the sun. The story is when the sun was in the right position
in the sky, and a bus arrived at a stop to pickup passengers at just the right
time. A reflection off part of the bus would strike one of their tape drives
and be interpreted as an end-of-tape marker.
Ian A. MacGregor
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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