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This pilot fish is a registered nurse, not a regular IT tech. But it's back in the days before his hospital got an actual IT department, and as one of the few people onsite with a knowledge of computers, he's their go-to IT guy.
"I was working in Cardiology in a cath lab, which has cardiac imaging equipment," fish says. "The company that installed the X-ray equipment had a control system with two tape drives, an 8-inch disk drive, six racks of proprietary hardware and miles of small-diameter wire and circuitry.
"Unbeknownst to pretty much everybody, when they installed that equipment someone decided it was OK to run power for the delicate electronics that told the system what to do through the same 250-amp circuit breaker as the X-ray equipment."
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