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Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories (really O/S humor)
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Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 15:15:00 EST
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>    Speaking of doing things to power lines...I remember a story I heard from
> my circuits professor in Colorado.  It seems that they received a computer
> from the government (I can't remember the make, but it wasn't anything I
> had heard of before).  This computer was a bit of a beast.  It ran off of
> 3-phase power, and had a disk that was between 3 and 4 feet in diameter.
> <amusing anecdote regarding trashing a disc>...

The machine was a Librascope, down in the fifteenth basement of the Engine
Center.  The way I heard it, they managed to trash TWO discs and their
drives before they figured it out.

But you know how rumors are.

Carl "Do I hear 3?  4?" Dierschow
Hewlett Packard - Colorado Networks Division