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From: tmca@ut-emx.UUCP (The Anarch)
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Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
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Date: 6 Feb 89 01:06:45 GMT
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This tale is true, I was there.

The DEC users group here occasionally has Q+A sessions with a representative
of said company which sometimes become complaint and apology sessions. I
remember one particular complaint from a Physics professor who claimed that
his microVax was having problems with its tk50 tape drive and he had lost
a fair quantity of data when the drive allegedly mangled a tape (magnetically,
not physically). Some discussion ensued and the professor griped that he 
also didn't like the way that the screen display "flexed" every time they 
turned the equipment on next door.

It turns out that the "equipment next door" is a largish Tokomak fusion
reactor - the electromagnets in the thing have to be seen to be believed.
(And this man is a physics professor - phew!)

Tim.
	Clean as a Q-Tip
	Quiet as nylon.