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From: ruby@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ruby Hidano)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Keywords: mag tape problems
Message-ID: <1150@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 88 22:42:16 GMT
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Organization: Boeing Aerospace Corp., Seattle WA
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Here's another one about a compiler purchase...

Seems our facilities department caught wind of our recent aquisition
of an Ada compiler.  One day soon thereafter a facilities representative
paid a visit to the systems administrator and politely inquired "How many
square feet will your new compiler require?"