A fishy story.

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From: ro... keenan royle
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1989 21:53

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Third hand story I heard today.  Back in the early days of computing
they built one of the first water cooled computers up in Chicago.
For some reason they pumped water strait from Lake Michigan.

Things would work fine accept that small fish would occasionally
get sucked into the coooling system.  So they added a filter to the
intake pipe.  Well now the filter would clog.  So the solution to this 
was to add a grinder to the front of the filter.

Once a day the operator would crank the handle on the grinder to 
grind up the fish and unclog the filter.

Believe it, or not!



I really can't believe how well this group is going.  I only created
it on a whim.  Keep all the great stories coming!

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From: ro...@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (keenan royle)
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Subject: A fishy story.
Summary: Early water cooled computer
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Date: 22 Dec 89 21:53:05 GMT
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