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From: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <186@moncol.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 22:26:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 22:26:51 1986
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Reply-To: john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer)
Organization: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ
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In article <1077@terak.UUCP> doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes:
>
>At that time, our CDC CE told of a student demonstration in Canada where
>a university's CDC 3300 had been wrecked by demonstrators and sold as
>scrap.  A CE reportedly bought the machine after observing that almost
>all of the damage was bent sheet metal and unplugged connectors.  He
>supposedly set up a service bureau in his home.  I'm not sure I believe
>this story.

I believe it. Our Perkin-Elmer (oops, Concurrent) CE's have a habit of
collecting equipment that otherwise would have been thrown out as junk.

One of them bought an old 16-bit machine (a P-E 7/16) that we long ago had
no use for for some very low price. He still talks about converting it to a
7/32 (32-bit machine).

I wonder what the garage of an IBM 370 CE looks like :-)

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