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From: dta@nvzg2.UUCP (Doug Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
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Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 11:47:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 17 11:47:34 1986
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> 
> 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!
> 
> --Rob Spray
> ...ctvax!rob

	I don't know about Yourdon but when I worked for a
	company in San Antonio, Texas, one of our night
	shift clerks wiped out 4 RP06 drives and 6 removable
	packs by doing this on a PDP 11/70.  Needless to say
	the person was chastised. (we were down for 12 hours
	till DEC got our drives back up.  Thankfully we
	still had a set of backup packs that hadn't been
	sacrificed to the great Head Crash :~) ).


	Doug Anderson

	Every thing I say is false.