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Re: BBN outage


From: Eric Kozowski <kozowski () structured net>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 20:19:10 -0700 (PDT)

This reminds me of a passage from Bruce Sterling's _The Hacker Crackdown_.

   Parked outside the back is a power-generation truck. The generator
   strikes me as rather anomalous. Don't they already have their own
   generators in this eight-story monster? Then the suspicion strikes
   me that NYNEX must have heard of the September 17 AT&T
   power-outage which crashed New York City. Belt-and-suspenders,
   this generator. Very telco.

michael

The Portland, OR AT&T POP has _two_ trailer (40') mounted generators in
the parking lot, in addition to a fixed mount generator.  Typically,
generators that large are in the 2000-5000kw capacity.


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