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From: bzs@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <265@bu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 00:36:40 EST
Article-I.D.: bu-cs.265
Posted: Sat Mar 15 00:36:40 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 18-Mar-86 01:36:16 EST
Organization: Boston Univ Comp. Sci.
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Ok, my two quickies...

Several years ago I was working on a portable real-time system we had
custom built (using an LSI-11/1, 4KB, home-brewed O/S.) There were two
of them in the universe and were working hard on two separate research
studies. Filled my heart with glea when I went to lift mine and out of
its guts poured several ounces of coffee...(not me, never found out who.)

A couple of years ago I was drinking coffee in my favorite coffee shop
(maybe I should just stay away from the coffee!) when their phone rang,
they shouted from behind the counter that it was for me, there was an
alarm going in one of the machine rooms and I should get right over there.

Ran over to find an operator standing there with a finger on the Halon
hold button, we had a two zone alarm going so it was about to dump the
tanks (I remember the operator looking very pleased at their current
career choice). It didn't look like there was any fire, so I began running
around pulling up floor tiles (after, of course, disabling the fire system)
looking for the offending sensors, 90Db going off in my ears. Suddenly
I notice this bad stinging pain in my arm, great I'm thinking, the big
one, just what I need to finish a perfect day. Well, it wasn't that bad
fortunately someone else in the room noticed the bee on my shoulder...

I could go on.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University