Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!itcatl!jonathan From: jonathan@itcatl.UUCP (Jonathan Peterson) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore Message-ID: <319@itcatl.UUCP> Date: 2 Feb 89 23:48:07 GMT References: <7143@pyr.gatech.EDU> <532@geovision.UUCP> <4575@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM> Lines: 15 > >2) The IBM service rep came in and REMOVED a board, that > >was put there to deliberately slow things down. > > In a similar vein, the GE 415 and 425 CPUs were identical except that > the 415 had an extra wire that slowed the clock down a bit. Is it true that the phone company designed touch-tone keyboards upside- down from calcutaor, etc numeric keypads because data entry people could punch faster than the first generation switching systems could read? #include jonathan@itcatl.gatech.edu| "There are things you don't know about me Dottie... DISC Access | Things you wouldn't understand, Products Group, Inc. | things you couldn't understand, Atlanta, GA | things you SHOULDN'T understand."