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From: rob@ctvax
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Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
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Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 12:48:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 11 12:48:00 1986
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Nf-From: ctvax!rob    Feb 11 11:48:00 1986


Ed Yourdon used to (maybe he still does?) tell the story of a night shift
operator on a PDP-11 with a bunch of RK05 drives, who had a head crash
and tried to recover by swapping cartridges. Before he stopped for
help, he'd knocked out five drives and eleven cartridges!

Then there was the compiler project at CDC many years ago.  The whole
team got pulled off for a few weeks on a rush job.  When they got back
to the compiler, everyone thought someone else had saved the sources.
The archives had been reaped in the mean time. None of the sources
(about one and half man-years of coding) remained.The story goes that
someone had kept an OLD listing, which was submitted to the keypunch
(I said it was an old story!) department.

--Rob Spray
...ctvax!rob