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From: SLSW2@cc.usu.edu (Roger Ivie)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Hitting the Fan
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Date: 18 Jan 90 05:20:00 GMT
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In article <1990Jan15.181808.1352@newcastle.ac.uk>, Brian.Randell@newcastle.ac.uk (Brian Randell) writes:

> What had happened was there had been a break in a sewer pipe - a pipe
> being fed by all the toilets in the large multi-story building whose
> ground floor housed the computer room. The sewage gradually backed up,
> and then overflowed into the hole in the ground housing the fan, and
> then into the fan itself, so as to be distributed evenly and
> efficiently - for a while at least - around the whole computer!

My story isn't that dramatic. 

The university here used to have a Burroughs B6800. One day it went down
in a fashion more severe than its normal yoyo mode. It turned out that a
rat had crawled into the fan on one of the disk drives and had been spewed
all over one of the disk packs.

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