"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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snippage

In 6" characters on wide tractor paper, the first sheet read "Alright,
John, you (insert ethnicity of your choice here) *******, I've had
enough of your abuse. You have tickled me with that duster and moved
my switches for the last time." It then started feeding out a hundred
blank pages at full speed, spilling out onto the janitor's feet. He
turned white, ran screaming from the office, and didn't return that
night. My buddy figured that taught him to play more nicely around
computers.

I would have paid money to see that!

If you ever want to see a system operator with that "deer in the headlights"
look. . . . NCR304 system(early 60's), using Ampex tape drives. Denny had
just mounted a reel of tape, closed the door and was doing the "button
dance" to complete *loading*, when the whole room went dead silent. This
whole system operated with 3 phase 230VAC 400cycle that was produced by a
motor generator in the air conditioner room, and just as he did the *button
dance*, a diode in the exciter current control circuit died, ergo no
400cycle 3phase etc., and the whole room went utterly silent except for the
slight "sighing" of the air conditioning.

--
Nahmie
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside,
thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'WOW! What A
Ride!'"




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