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From: haungs@wivax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: YASEM (yet another strange error message)
Message-ID: <18889@wivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Oct-83 18:00:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 17 18:00:27 1983
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Organization: Wang Institute, Tyngsboro, Ma.  01879
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What RIT hacker could ever forget:

   Eh @ 12?

Twelve, of course, was the column number where the command parser got lost.

Even worse was:   (ding, ding, ding)  -- RECOVERY SAYS STAND BY --

which deafeningly pounded out on all the TTYs in the computer center.
This meant that everything you had done that day was trashed, and 
it could be DAYS before the system recovered.  "Stand by" indeed!
-- 

Jim Haungs -- {decvax,linus}!wivax!haungs -- Wang Institute
              Haungs.Wang-Inst@UDel-Relay -- (617) 649-9731
              
              Wang Laboratories, Mailstop 1379
              1 Industrial Avenue
              Lowell, MA  01851              (617) 967-6430