[SunRescue] An intriguing idea...

[J. S. Connell]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Tim wrote:

> This brings back an interesting story.  Anybody remember the Chaos Manor
> column that used to (maybe still is) in Byte magazine?  Jerry Pournelle
> [snip]
> Don't remember how old that story is, but I seem to remember his big
> machine was a 386.

It was a 16 kV line, and it occured in April 1988 (maybe 1989).  I can't
lay my hands on any of my old BYTEs at the moment, but he called it The
Great <something - damn my memory :/ >.

The bit about exploding lightbulbs I remember vividly. =)

--Jeff