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From: edg@micropro.UUCP (Ed Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: WAREHOUSE DESTROYED BY FIRE
Message-ID: <187@micropro.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 18:21:20 EST
Article-I.D.: micropro.187
Posted: Tue Nov 26 18:21:20 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 29-Nov-85 08:17:47 EST
Organization: MicroPro Int'l Corp., San Rafael, CA
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WAREHOUSE DESTROYED BY FIRE
Copyright 1985 Edward W Greenberg
Fresno CA (AP)

A warehouse here, belonging the the Data Processing Archives and Storage
company (DPA), based in Silicon Valley, was completely destroyed by fire last
night.  The fire broke out in some Hot Backups on the first floor and 
spread to some old directories, finally engulfing the entire file system.

Jose Frink, the warehouse manager and the only employee of DPA based in
Fresno called the fire "... a total disaster."  Frink, who had been with
the company for about four years after being drummed out of Caltech for
running rampant among the fraternities, went on to describe the damage.
"It's a total loss.  All the files are gone, the directories are trashed
and the ram is scrambled.  All that remains is one case of mismatched 
socks that was miraculously left out on the loading dock."

DPA operates the warehouse under cooperation with the data processing 
community at large.  It is considered the nations largest repository
of misplaced data, holding all the material that used to be in zero 
length files, all the links and pointers to files that were defined
in now trashed directories, the contents of all floppy disks that had
bad sectors, and the data structures that were in RAM when you last looked,
but, for some reason, were not there when your program attempted to access
them.  DPA operates several warehouses around the country,
in such sites as Fargo, North Dakota, Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Needles,
California.  Some of the sites, operated under exclusive contract with the
government, have had their locations classified.

Frink, while stating that the company would rebuild in fresno, did not 
know when the rebuilding would begin or how long it would take.  He went
on to assure the DP community that, effective immediately, the Bakersfield
facility would begin to archive the materials that had previously been
assigned to Fresno.




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Ed Greenberg; MicroPro International Corp. (disclaimer)
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