[Milsurplus] Coronal Mass Ejection

[Peter Gottlieb]

I worked at a bank where they were required by the SEC to replace anything not 
Y2K "certified."  That included fax machines, printers and monitors!

I did manage to persuade them to let me take a truckload of it all (with the 
promise of completely erasing hard drives) which I gave to my local schools.

Barely a dent in the overall pile but at least it went to a good cause.



On 8/1/2014 12:57 PM, Brian Carling wrote:
> Ah yes Y2K
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> A lot of people sold perhaps millions of computers to try to avoid this so-called problem. They replaced worthless computers with even more worthless computers.
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> Best regards - Bry Carling
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>> On Aug 1, 2014, at 11:56 AM, Ray Fantini <RAFANTINI at salisbury.edu> wrote:
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>> All this is starting to sound a lot like how the world was going to come to an end in the year 2000, anyone else remember the great Y2K catastrophe?
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>> Among other things I work in radio and television broadcasting where we have very large towers that are routinely struck by lightning during almost every storm. The transients of the lightning pulse thru the tower to the ground system will usually result in a magnetic pulse strong enough to magnetize CRT displays to the point of having to be degaussed and occasionally cause issues with our connections to the utilities but with good design and better grounding we regularly survive direct lighting strikes and the EMP pulses associated with them just as a matter of business. Can see where large open systems like the power grid is at risk to large scale events but that same system is always under attack by mother nature and is way more robust than people think it is.
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>> Ray F
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