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From: terry-...
Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2018 05:23

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On Friday, June 1, 2018 at 2:20:05 PM UTC-4, han...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> Lots of computer rooms had prominent NO SMOKING signs in those days.
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> Lots of staff ignored them.

At SPC, we had an old-time IBM CE (he was trained on the Stretch) who would ignore the No Smoking signs as well as verbal requests to not smoke in the room. His retort was "You don't own these machines - we do!"

One of his favorite things to use for an ashtray were the cabinets holding strings of 3330 and 3340 disk drives.

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