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jodrellblank on Oct 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Type in the exact number of machines to proceed

>"overloading the remaining servers and crashing the subsystem. The failure snowballed until"

the entire Eastern Seaboard was without power?

https://youtu.be/XetplHcM7aQ?t=693 (James Burke's Connections, ref. cascading power cut 1965)

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