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From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR)
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Subject: Re: Computer Horror Story
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Date: Fri, 21-Mar-86 15:12:34 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 21 15:12:34 1986
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In article <706@ihlpl.UUCP> runyan@ihlpl.UUCP (Runyan) writes:
>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

	Why would the X-ray machine make the computer crash? If there were
x-rays getting through, I would think the medical problems would be big
enough that the bank had better hire a good lawyer to prepare for the
computer operators' lawsuits.

-- 
					--MKR

"The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The 
 terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency."
						- Albert Einstein