Dutch Railway Line crippled due to harddisk crash

Posted by GrefTek in Technology at 12:06 pm on Thursday, March 1, 2007

Train evacuatedToday one of my co-workers was victim of a major problem on the dutch railway service from and to Amsterdam; he came almost 2 hours late at office because of a ‘computer malfunction’ which resulted in the signaling and switches wouldn’t work. Apparently the computer that is responsible for dealing with these systems suffered a hard disk crash.

Dutch readers, check nu.nl for the story.

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