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From: jlh@loral.UUCP (The Man With No Brain)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer horror stories
Message-ID: <1068@loral.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 12:30:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 12:30:43 1986
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I remember when I was in college one of my teachers had a newspaper clipping
on the wall with this story.  Seems a large company decided to computerize,
and they bought a large computer to do it with.  They installed the system
in their skyscraper, but to their dismay kept getting 2-3 random crashes a
day.  For a couple of weeks they had the manufacturer's rep out there, trying
this and that, to no avail.  The problem?  A couple of floors up, a section
of the floor wasn't braced properly.  Therefore, whenever a lady over a
certain weight sat on a certain toilet of a certain ladies room the floor
gave a bit and shorted out some of the cabling to the computer.  Naturally,
by the time the tech could get to the system to find out what happened, the
unsuspecting lady had finished her buiseness and the problem was gone.  How
they found that I'll never know.