[time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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John Moran, Scawby Design writes:

> "If you happen to own something like a steel mill running electric
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> furnaces or an aluminum refinery, so you can manipulate the load..."
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> Sometime in the late '80s, my first decent sized computer system came on line [...]

We had the same problem when we installed the largest non-university
UNIX computer in Denmark in the late 1980'ies.  In our case it was
our heavy-weight receptionist getting into the antique lift, heading
for the canteen on the top floor.

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