An Arc Welder In The Datacenter: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Register, Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024
Not much if wielded by the experienced and careful operator in this story - but he was not the only actor in this tale
Yet again Monday is upon us, bringing the prospect of another working week filled with joy, opportunity, new horizons, and a fresh dose of Who, Me? - The Reg's weekly confessional in which readers share stories of jobs that had promising beginnings, and . interesting ends.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Andrew" who told us about the fun times he spent in the 1960s and 1970s working as an IBM customer engineer - mostly for financial services clients of the sort for whom a few minutes' downtime meant a few million in losses.