[time-nuts] Daft idea with the National Grid

[John Moran, Scawby Design]

That was some heavy-weight receptionist! :-)

Thanks for the feedback.

John

> On 8 Feb 2021, at 17:58, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> 
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> John Moran, Scawby Design writes:
> 
>> "If you happen to own something like a steel mill running electric
>> 
>> furnaces or an aluminum refinery, so you can manipulate the load..."
>> 
>> 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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