This wasn't Halon... but it was worth sharing. Travelers, the insurance company, in the days before they became part of Citigroup (and there's a lot more history there), had a data center in Hartford (CT) in a freestanding building. Data center power supply from the grid ran across busses and various equipment that was placed outside the building, presumably due to the cooling needs, protected from people by a head-height cyclone fence, I believe I recall. However, the equipment was not far from a couple of trees, and every once in a while, a squirrel would decide that those funny-looking short trees over there were something worth jumping to. He'd complete a short circuit: dead squirrel: dark data center.
There were two or three of those incidents, I'm told (I worked a few buildings away for the same employer and occasionally lost service to the mainframe), before they put up cyclone fence on all sides of the outlet plus over the top, saving the squirrels from their own worst impulses. --Phil Sevetson -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
