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junk collecting
Left is a mug found at a garage sale. It's a rare piece of history. It may be the only record of this software's existence. It tells about long-obsolete enterprise software: an outage management system implemented by Southern California Edison in Orange County, California during summer 1993. By comparison with what they paid for the software, this mug was cheap. The mug had gold leaf and therefore will damage your microwave. It's "made in USA."
At right is a Kodak Instamatic 104. It's also, "made in USA." I had one of these and also the earlier model that took a single flashbulb. Oddly, the battery compartment in this one is clean. It's rusty and may have been submerged at some point. Good luck trying to find a cassette of 126 film or a flashcube for it. It will help me collect dust out here in the desert.
…A growing literature on business continuity has emerged, devoted to telling business organizations how they can better anticipate disruptions or respond better if and when they occur. But little attention seems to have been given to the idea that reliability may require more than prior anticipation and a preprogrammed emergency response… [There is an] intensifying social dependency on high performance hazardous technologies… [including] complex electrical grids, and telecommunications systems. Many large technical systems impose relatively tight error tolerances on operators and maintenance personnel, and the consequences of the errors are high, often ramifying beyond the user to bystanders and society at large.
— Charles Perrow
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junk collecting
Left is a mug found at a garage sale. It's a rare piece of history. It may be the only record of this software's existence. It tells about long-obsolete enterprise software: an outage management system implemented by Southern California Edison in Orange County, California during summer 1993. By comparison with what they paid for the software, this mug was cheap. The mug had gold leaf and therefore will damage your microwave. It's "made in USA."
At right is a Kodak Instamatic 104. It's also, "made in USA." I had one of these and also the earlier model that took a single flashbulb. Oddly, the battery compartment in this one is clean. It's rusty and may have been submerged at some point. Good luck trying to find a cassette of 126 film or a flashcube for it. It will help me collect dust out here in the desert.
…A growing literature on business continuity has emerged, devoted to telling business organizations how they can better anticipate disruptions or respond better if and when they occur. But little attention seems to have been given to the idea that reliability may require more than prior anticipation and a preprogrammed emergency response… [There is an] intensifying social dependency on high performance hazardous technologies… [including] complex electrical grids, and telecommunications systems. Many large technical systems impose relatively tight error tolerances on operators and maintenance personnel, and the consequences of the errors are high, often ramifying beyond the user to bystanders and society at large.
— Charles Perrow
Journalism grade image.
Source: a 4,100x2,300 pixel 16-bit TIF file.
Do not copy this image for any purpose.