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From: amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <1004@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 89 14:41:23 GMT
References: <7143@pyr.gatech.EDU> <4744@sfsup.UUCP> <2887@sybase.sybase.com> <1912I78BC@CUNYVM> <1036@tutor.tut.fi> <1101@rlgvax.UUCP>
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In article <1101@rlgvax.UUCP> smadi@rlgvax.UUCP (On Paradise) writes:
|I have not witnessed this one, but some of my friends did.

I did, so here's a small :-) correction:

|Some computer-illiterate visitors were shown the CDC6400 at the Hebrew
|University of Jerusalem. One of them asked how does the machine do all
|these wonderful things; their guide joked that it has a small man
|inside.
|
|While he was speaking, a CDC technician (the late Rachmim Moreno, a
|small man indeed) has just finished some routine maintenance and
|stepped out of the machine.

It was not a CDC6400, but a PDP 11/45 (long cabinet).  Anybody could walk
into the CDC...
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