Xref: utzoo rec.humor:18828 comp.misc:5076 Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!ukma!rutgers!gauss.rutgers.edu!math.rutgers.edu!aberg From: aberg@math.rutgers.edu (Hans Aberg) Newsgroups: rec.humor,comp.misc Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore Message-ID: Date: 12 Feb 89 02:17:11 GMT References: <744@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> <6286@saturn.ucsc.edu> <1582@uwovax.uwo.ca> <435@adobe.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 22 This computer musician who lives up in Ithaca, NY, told the following story: He had tried out his Macintosh MIDI equipment, and everything had worked perfectly. In those days, in the early mid-eighties, one had to rely on 512K, and an external disk drive (no hard drive). Then he went up to Chicago(?) for a performance for an audience. He picked up all the equipment on the stage -- it didn't work at all. So the next couple of hours he tries to figure out what is wrong, and the audience is starting to show up... But then, Aha!, somebody discovered that the external disk drive was placed on the left side of the Macintosh -- not on the right side, as it should according to the manual. The Mac has its transformers on the left side, and their magnetic field interfered with the drive. So they moved the drive over to the right side, everything all of a sudden working perfectly, and the performance was carried in land. Hans Aberg