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Article #980Re: Hitting the Fan
From: wa... Wayne Hathaway
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1990 23:56
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1990 23:56
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Here's one my brother told me from when he was an IBM salesman back in the early 60's, when plugboard machines like the 407 Accounting Machine (exact name?) were all the rage. One day he gets this frantic phone call from a customer who reports that his 407 has blown up. Hmm, says my brother, you mean it's malfunctioning? No, says the customer, I mean it BLEW UP! Sure enough, when my brother arrives at the scene he finds little pieces of 407 all over the place. What the HELL??? Further investigation revealed that someone on the customer's staff had cleaned the type bars -- with gasoline! The heavy fumes had settled down into the large body cavity of the machine, and when power was turned back on ... And you thought you had problems when your PROGRAMS blew up! Wayne Hathaway Ultra Network Technologies domain: wa...@Ultra.COM 101 Daggett Drive Internet: ultra!wa...@Ames.ARC.NASA.GOV San Jose, CA 95134 uucp: ...!ames!ultra!wayne 408-922-0100
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!luth!eru!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!apple!vsi1!wyse!mips!ultra!wayne From: wa...@ultra.com (Wayne Hathaway) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Hitting the Fan Summary: Thar she blows ... Message-ID: <1990Jan20.235655.18624@ultra.com> Date: 20 Jan 90 23:56:55 GMT References: <1990Jan15.181808.1352@newcastle.ac.uk> <16867@cc.usu.edu> <732@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> Reply-To: wa...@ultra.com (Wayne Hathaway) Distribution: alt Organization: Ultra Network Technologies Lines: 23 Posted: Sun Jan 21 00:56:55 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit