From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihps3!ihldt!ll1!sb1!mb2b!jed
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: Computational injuries
Article-I.D.: mb2b.113
Posted: Tue Oct 12 13:03:53 1982
Received: Sun Oct 17 04:57:10 1982

Back in the days of the IBM 360/65 with its Selectric hardcopy
console we had a problem with an operator who was nearsited and
had long hair.  It seems she was bending over the console to
read the most recent message when the machine started typing.
It wound her hair around the ball like spaghetti on a fork.
The FE had to cut her hair off to get her loose.  Also, the
system went down because the console went not ready while she
was getting her impromptu trim.