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This reminds me of a story one of my college professors told about the days when he helped automate factories in the 80s. Every night, the control server hey in
by AndrewHampton 9y ago
This reminds me of a story one of my college professors told about the days when he helped automate factories in the 80s. Every night, the control server hey installed would go offline around 1am then come back up a few minutes later. It was never the exact same time or duration. After a few days of diving through the code with no progress, one of his co-workers decided to stay up all night at the factory and just watch the server. Around 1am, the cleaning lady came in, unplugged the server and plugged in her vacuum.
- test6554 9y agoThat co-worker later went on to invent the Roomba. /s
- vxNsr 9y agoThere's a lot of permutations of this story including life support systems in hospitals I find them all apocryphal. The cleaning staff would notice right away if they just shut down a huge computer. Esp. in the 80s I doubt it even used the same outlet as a regular vacuum cleaner.
- timzentu 9y agoSome of them even had the mains wired directly into the case, so you couldn't unplug without an ax.
- astura 9y agoCorrect, this is just an old urban legend https://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/cleaner.asp https://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/cleaner.asp
- zupzupper 9y agoI too have heard this story, yet I had this exact problem at a k-8 school district, the staff would unplug the power to my t1 each night.
- kjs3 9y agoYeah...that's maybe one of the original apocryphal stories. Try again.