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by toxic72 778 days ago
Can you share more about the Home Shopping Network's broadcast infrastructure - that's such an explored little nugget of the world I've never given any thought to before
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This is 30+ years ago, they had a halon system. They had calculated the volume of the rooms, including the contents so as to not kill people while supressing fire. So making a hole in a wall, or adding/subtracting anything was a huge production.