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From: gerber@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Andrew S. Gerber)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories [Funny]
Message-ID: <104@mit-amt.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 13:14:08 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  9 13:14:08 1986
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In article <922@megaron.UUCP> rogerh@arizona.UUCP (Roger Hayes) writes:
>Anybody remember how to walk an IBM 1130's disk drives?  I recall
>stories that the right program would start them marching across the
>room.

A friend of mine once told me how he used to do just that at U of
Delaware. He used to do it from a terminal room where you couldn't see
the machine itself, but you'd know when it happned - the disk would
pull either it's power plug or it's connection to the mainframe off,
and the machine would crash.

The TRS-80 Model 1 used to put out so much RF interference, that one
way of adding sound to ANY program was to put a small AM radio right
by the machine, and listening to the electronic "music".  Some
programs even used this trait of the trash-80, instead of connecting
up the external speaker.



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