Y2K, I made a lot of money out of this. I invested a smallish amount into a company
working on Y2K solutions. Then I forgot about it for a couple of years, investment
had improved in value by about 8 times. On the subject of power supplies the last Data
Centre which I managed had 2*Ships diesels, each capable of carrying the mainframe &
ancilliary equipment load. I wonder in the case of Delta if it was some equipment other
than the computers which failed. I remember in NZ a few years ago the highly robust
point of sale network went down when someone found and cut the only "single point failure" cable.