Watt's the worst thing you can do to a datacenter? Failing to RTFM, Electrically
The Register, Monday, September 11,2023
A subtle change to a vital piece of equipment almost derailed a major project
Welcome once again gentle reader to another Monday morning, and with it an instalment of Who, Me? in which Reg readers cushion your entry to the working week with tales of things going not quite right.
This week meet "Nikolai" who spent some time in the mid-1980s working on some fancy bespoke communications solutions. On the project in question Nikolai was employing two very expensive microprocessor emulators - because you need one at each end to demonstrate a comms solution, of course.
Underlining the rarity and expense of these emulators, Nikolai tells us there were only three of them in the country at the time, and he had two thirds of the supply. He doesn't spell out what the other one was doing - probably not comms, we're guessing.