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From: barto@celerity.UUCP (David Barto)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
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Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 14:55:41 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 14:55:41 1986
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Reply-To: barto@celerity.UUCP (David Barto)
Organization: Celerity Computing, San Diego, Ca.
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(As told to me by a fellow named "Marv Rubenstein",
Back in the days when Cards and tape were the only way....)

"I was asked by a fellow, how to read a bunch of cards, which he did
not know the format of, but could determine from the data on the card.
I told him to read the card to tape unformatted, backup the tape, and
then read the data back from the tape to be able to use format specified.

He did this, using rewind to backup the tape drive.  Needless to say,
the tape drive caught fire due to the 'read a card to tape, rewind,
read tape, rewind, read a card to tape, rewind ...."
-- 
David Barto, Celerity Computing, San Diego Ca, (619) 271-9940
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