{"id":111381,"date":"2025-07-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=111381"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:19:37","slug":"20250715-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20250715-00\/?p=111381","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps not a recommended usage for an emergency power outlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not uncommon for Microsoft employees who are aficionados of arcade video games to set up a unit in free play mode in a public space for anyone to play. For example, <a title=\"Welcome to the maze and enjoy the Habitrail\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100601-00\/?p=13863\"> the Habitrail in the Building 16-18 complex<\/a> used to be filled with arcade video games.<\/p>\n<p>In <a title=\"A walkthrough of the original Microsoft Building 3\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20250708-00\/?p=111357\"> the original Microsoft X-wing buildings<\/a>, a convenient place to set up an arcade video game was at the end of each wing. Some time in the early 1990&#8217;s, I was at work on a weekend when the power suddenly went out. While waiting to see if the power would come back on, I wandered around the building. And that&#8217;s where I saw an arcade video game happily playing its attract mode. During a power outage.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out that the wall outlets at the end of each wing were powered by the emergency generators.<\/p>\n<p>I figured this was not the best of use emergency power and turned off the machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe that&#8217;s not a critical system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-111381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Maybe that&#8217;s not a critical system.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}