[Outages-discussion] [outages] [META] Some outages are planned

[Chris Boyd]

> On Sep 8, 2020, at 12:22 PM, Jay R. Ashworth via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
> 
> We're prone, in the networking and IT world, to use the term "cutover" to
> describe what happens when we replace an old system with a new one.  But even
> if you know where the term comes from... I'll bet you've never actually *seen*
> one:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saRir95iIWk
> 
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> 
> Cheers,
> -- jr '<admin/>' a
> 
> [* AT&T splash cuts Glendale stepper CO to 5ESS in 1984 ]

I wish they had shown how they reconnected the subscriber lines to the 5ESS. The “cut” is the easy part, but the “over” would be more interesting.