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From: ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik, 120dB or more)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: A new virus that physically damages your hard disk?
Message-ID: <13149@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 23 Apr 91 18:59:48 GMT
References: <1CE00001.cjpdlcx@tbomb.ice.com> <71828@microsoft.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <71828@microsoft.UUCP> jamesth@microsoft.UUCP (James THIELE) writes:

>Perhaps not for a Mac, but back in those bygone days when men were men,
>women were women, and disk drives were as big as washing machines (say,
>the '60s and '70s), lots of mainframe computers were able to make their
>disk drives walk across the machine room ("Machine *room*?? You mean that
>they built computers that didn't fit on a desktop?"  "Yep.").  Sometimes
>they did a lot of damage, including damaging themselves.
>
>Perhaps this still happens - lately I've been trying to avoid
>mainframes.  :-)

"Devouring Fungus" by Jennings contains a lot of this computereese folklore.

Kent

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Kent Sandvik, DTS junkie