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I would go with: End September / Start October, 2003 Based on the evidence the other posters mentioned, and: "In the last few days the entire area of mainland
by feral 10y ago
I would go with:
End September / Start October, 2003
Based on the evidence the other posters mentioned, and:
"In the last few days the entire area of mainland Italy was hit and some 50,000,000 people were left without electricity."
and Google finding this (only blackout that size that comes up):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3150788.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3150788.stm
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- vitus 10y agoFurther, point 5 refers to the SARS outbreak ('02-'03) and BSE (mad cow disease, which I believe entered mainstream US news around '03-'04), so I'd place it another year out, in '04. I do find it a bit bizarre that he cites his CPU's clock rate in Mbps, though, since it makes it a bit more difficult to identify his particular CPU. Further, processors in the early-mid 2000s had 10x as many transistors per chip. Although, it's not unreasonable to assume he was simply using a computer that was several generations old. edit: ah, I see. Specific pointer to relative dates in the article. Good catch!
- feral 10y ago> edit: ah, I see. Specific pointer to relative dates in the article. Good catch! Also, your post spurred me to more searching: http://babylon.acad.cai.cam.ac.uk/people/dmh/engineering/engineer03/ http://babylon.acad.cai.cam.ac.uk/people/dmh/engineering/eng... File modification dates between 30 Sept and 06 Oct 2003! The easy way to do it :-)
- khedoros 10y ago> I do find it a bit bizarre that he cites his CPU's clock rate in Mbps I assume it was a mistake, and he meant MHz. The numbers work out pretty well, interpreted that way (4MHz and 16KB RAM vs 900MHz and 128MB RAM).