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From: mercer@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <1012@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 6 Feb 89 03:21:50 GMT
References: <7143@pyr.gatech.EDU> <532@geovision.UUCP> <768@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: mercer@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer)
Organization: NCR Comten, Inc.
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My favorite story is about a satellite link that went haywire every
Friday at 3:00 PM.   The company that owned the link immediately blamed
the software in their communications controllers.  Systems analysts were
dispatched on site,  and try as they did,  they couldn't find a
software  bug that could be responsible.  Finally,  by dumb luck
they found it.  A bunch of factory workers let off at 3:00 started
their weekend with a parking lot beer party and through their empty
cans in the satellite uplink.  A shift of security guards fixed
that.

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Dan Mercer
Reply-To: mercer@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer)