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Article: Can a computer room fire paralyze your terminal? (Terminal Equipment & Services)
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- The Oil Daily
- Article date:
- June 17, 1986
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Can A Computer Room Fire Paralyze Your Terminal?
AUTOMATION offers many benefits to petroleum and chemical storage terminals. But it also can make them extremely vulnerable. Fire in the computer room can be very costly.
Effective prevention, detection and extinguishment of computer related fires can avoid expensive downtime, property damage, loss of product, and harm to personnel.
Depending on size and activity, the cost of terminal shutdown for a day, or return to manual operation for a week, would outweigh the price of any practical computer protection system.
When budgeting, you might think the computer room would be pretty far down ...