Flashback to the early 1990s, when this pilot fish is working as a computer operator in a medium-size data center.

“One afternoon, there’s a sudden smell of smoke in the air,” says fish. “Alarms go off and power to the data center is shut off.

“The local fire department responds in a timely manner, but is unable to locate the source of the smoke. All we know is that it was detected under the floor.

“Power is restored and we go about our business.

“But this same scenario is replayed several times over the next few weeks. The fire department is getting extremely annoyed, as this data center is located on the 18th floor of a building in the middle of an extremely busy section of downtown.

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