ICT and the Deregulation of the Electric Power Industry: A Story of an Architect's New Tool: Klashner

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Interviewer: Is that how they used to do it in the old days before they had the computers?
Respondent: The ______ came around, they had, you see we were not really connected until like in the [19]60s.
Interviewer: OK.
Respondent: So, once we got interconnected, yeah, it was analog, throw in a couple of charts, it was analog feed and, and uh there was no computer. You were allowed to use the phone, pad, calculator, and you would read the actual flows or call the substation. Cause as the substations were manned then. They let you call the substation that was the intertie with the other utility and give you a visual read on the amp meter or megawatt meter and tell me what was flowing in right there. So, but they had an analog feed. That's all. If the analog feed went down or they couldn't talk to the substation, they had no, they had no backup on this, uh, that computer. This computer here, is the system reading now, has been upgraded over the years ...

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