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In article <JV.90Feb...@mhres.mh.nl> j...@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
>Everybody knows the stories about squirrels bringing computer systems
>down by biting the cables. 
>My cat took a different approach ...
   [story deleted...]

Well, my cat took yet another approach...

It was back in the days of S-100 systems and funny machines that would use
cassette tape as low-cost home storage devices.  One of my systems had this
"reset" button that was in the casework and made in such a way that you had
to push it with your finger twice for it to really do the reset.

It also had a CPU idle light in it...

The cat liked to watch this but had never gone near it.  However, one day,
while working on some large program, the cat started to play with the button.
Before I was able to stop it, it had double pushed the button and the system
went down!  I spent the next hour trying to recover the core and the source
I was working on and just as I was saving it to cassette, the blasted cat
did it again!  I had to take the cat outside, lock the door, rebuild the
core once again and save it.  I then added a toggle switch to the back of the
machine that would enable the reset button (simple stuff) and let the cat
back in.  While it continued to play with the button, it never again had
the chance to reset the machine.

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