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From: cy@ashtate.UUCP (Cy Shuster)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now
Message-ID: <296@ashtate.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 16:05:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 11 16:05:43 1987
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Keywords: It's so simple to program a computer to explode
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In article <3268@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM> andrews@bigburd.PRC.Unisys.COM (Christopher Andrews) writes:
>result was a disk drive that, after it started to vibrate much like a
>clotheswasher does when (as if to verify Dr. Heisenberg) all of the clothes
>work their way over to one side of the wash bin, "walked" its way across the
>computer room untill it pulled its own plug.

This is classical disk behavior, and is of course known as "putting it
into Maytag Mode". Can also be easily done by putting all temporary sort
work files on the same drive, and so on.

(standard disk-claimer)