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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horro Stories
Message-ID: <1033@burl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Feb-86 13:28:30 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 15 13:28:30 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Feb-86 05:26:52 EST
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Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Organization: AT&T Technologies, Burlington NC
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Summary: 

At a Navy research organization which shall remain nameless, a guy got
P.O.'d and decided to do something about it.  At the time they still
worked on cards; usually LOTS of cards, so they had these ultra-high-speed
card readers that would take a full box (about 2.5 feet long) of cards
at a time.  This guy took a deck of cards, hollowed out the entire inside
of the deck, filled it with very rotten bananas, and submitted his job.

The results were phenomenal -- it took them 2 weeks to clean out the reader
enough so that it would work part of the time at least, and I don't know
how long to clean the walls and ceiling...

Aside to Laura Creighton -- I think your `operator IQ' story is the best
I have ever seen -- bravo!
-- 

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