05-30-2014, 04:37 PM
jdc wrote:
Its got the warning, but only once... wont even let you hit enter. I was doing other things and just clicked.
operator error
In my old haunting grounds, this had the acronym OHS- Operator Head Space.
We had two kinds of Big Red Buttons; first were the Crash-Off Buttons, which tripped the 12KV breaker, and reduced us to utter darkness, accompanied with hopefully not too much burning flesh smell.
The other was a SCRAM button; it tripped all safety chains, but left power on. Some chassis had their own SCRAM button, deeply reset so a swinging cat wouldn't accidentally trip it.
Legend has it that the first SCRAM button wasn't a button at all. Somebody yells "Scram", and the "Safety Control Rod Axe Man" swings into action, while everybody else scrams.
Fermi may or may not have invented the term.
Eustace