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From: runyan@ihlpl.UUCP (Runyan)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Story
Message-ID: <706@ihlpl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 18-Mar-86 13:56:08 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 18 13:56:08 1986
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My best friend, Dan use to work for a computer store as a techincian.
He was called into a bank that had an AT that twice a day would crash.
They had called in the whole board of directors and administrators,
to discuss what kind of alternate solutions they could come up with.
After about an hour of discussing all the possiblilities, one little
elderly man to the side spoke up.  'I'm not very techinically oriented,
but could the Xray machine in the next room have anything to due with
the problem.'  Dan simply burst out laughing, while all the stuff 
shirts sat and stared.  It seems they xray all the incoming mail, and
the xray machine was behind a plaster wall from the computer (no 
shielding at all).  The mail of course came twice a day, which happened
to correspond to the times it crashed.

Keep up the good horror stories.

Mike Runyan
ihnp4!ihlpl!runyan


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