[geeks] electric cars

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:50:40 -0400
Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Steven Hill wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> > 
> >> I ran into that situation during the Great Blackout of 2003.  I
> >> couldn't get gas.  Just about the only thing in my neighborhood
> >> with power was the *one machine* that I left powered on and
> >> connected to my UPS.  I didn't want to screw up its uptime
> >> number.  8-)
> > 
> > Come on Sridhar, you can't leave us hanging here...
> > 
> > What was the uptime?
> 
> That machine is still up, and has an uptime somewhere just slightly 
> better than 13 years.

Damn... and I was just getting to brag about my best:

an embedded system that did 9 years until a $0.25 74xx chip left for
fiddler's green.

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