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From: lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Macintosh OS
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Date: 7 Jun 90 15:20:08 GMT
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Found in the RISKS newsgroup:

:Date: Wed, 6 Jun 90 09:08:04 PDT
:From: jaime@tcville.hac.com (Jaime Villacorte)
:Subject: New computerized scoring system fails during Indy 500
:
:        The following appeared in an article by Tim Considine in the June 4,
:1990 issue of Autoweek. It concerned the use of a new computerized scoring
:system manufactured by Dorian Industries, an Autralian electronics firm for
:use in the recent Indianapolis 500 race.
:
:        "Data-1, as the system is known is arguably the most advanced and
:        foolproof scoring system in the world. Well almost foolproof." [...]
:
:        "...all monitors went blank on Lap 130 of the race.
:          The cause of such a catastrophe: A laser printer ran out of paper
:        and the system froze. A simple problem, but one that hadn't been
:        simulated during testing.


Gee, I wonder how that could have happened.
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Don		D.C.Lindsay 	leaving CMU .. make me an offer!