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From: bertoni@uiucdcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Another Sigma 9 error msg - (nf)
Message-ID: <3271@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 16-Oct-83 22:26:45 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 16 22:26:45 1983
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uiucdcs!bertoni    Oct 16 17:07:00 1983

   Rochester doesn't own all the Sigmas....   At a certain unnamed
site which owned one of the XDS marvels, the computer was used by
the general student population, from beginners to the more advanced
sort of computer jocks.  There were student consultants there who had
the incredibly enjoyable task of aiding newcomers in solving various
problems.  On more than one occasion one of these poor, lost newcomers
had a program bomb on them, which elicited the message:
 
      A800 YOU ISSUED AN ERROR OR ABORT CAL

   One student, filled with a mixture of rage and confusion, ran to
the student consultant, yelling, "I didn't issue any error or abort
cal, what is this thing saying?  I don't even know what one is...."

   Sorry about that previous response, we are all neophytes at some point.