Also was working in Europe, Switzerland during the first gulf war..for a large American company.. Came through the mantrap...day after the bombing campaign started..saw a dude with an ear jack and a huge bulge under his jacket, he was packing a Uzi .....
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Mar 22, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > I worked for a major ny pharm company, one day an electrician dropped a > wrench into the air handlers on the roof while working creating a major DR > panic.. > > I have been involved in one disaster in Indy in operations, when an entire > city block was a blaze..we were 10 stories up and the windows were so hot you > couldn't touch them.. > > Second one when we moved the pharm. company from NYC to nj, one of the > channel interface cards caught fire and the halon dumped..we thought we were > on our way to Sunguard DR.. > > Sent from my iPad > Scott Ford > Senior Systems Engineer > www.identityforge.com > > > > On Mar 22, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Barry Merrill <[email protected]> wrote: > >> John Deere's data center in the 70's had two >> independent power supply companies, but with >> Midwest lightning strikes still had several >> to many outages each year. >> >> Data Center Manager could NOT get approval for >> a diesel power backup UPS because: >> >> The only backup system that was large enough for >> their power load was available from a single vendor >> and that vendor would ONLY use a caterpillar diesel >> engine. >> >> I think after the second year of outages, the data >> center manager was finally allowed to build a >> John Deere Green colored outbuilding building >> to hide the yellow Caterpillar engine. >> >> Barry Merrill >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
