Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!axion!stc!iclbra!siesoft!daa
From: daa@siesoft (David Allsopp)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Message-ID: <1180@argon.siesoft>
Date: 10 Feb 89 09:05:13 GMT
References: <7143@pyr.gatech.EDU> <532@geovision.UUCP> <4575@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM> <319@itcatl.UUCP> <3381@sugar.uu.net> <1989Feb5.122820.135
Reply-To: daa@siesoft.uucp (David Allsopp)
Organization: Siemens SDG, Woodley, England
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Well, I heard the following story on a Quality Management course...

	Apparently a certain (IBM) well-known (IBM) computer company (IBM)
had one quality manager who was an absolute b*st*rd, and when this guy was
put in charge of the team who were designing a new tape deck, they
resolved that, no matter what the cost in unpaid overtime, they were
going to create a product with *absolutely no faults*.  Well, they
sweated blood on this thing, and when the time came for the big launch,
they were sure that even this guy wouldn't be able find fault with it.
Well, the chap turned up and loaded a small macro into the controller,
which went
	<fast forward>....EMERGENCY STOP!
	pause...
	<fast rewind>.....EMERGENCY STOP!
	pause...
	<fast forward>....EMERGENCY STOP!
	etc.
After a while, the cabinet started rocking, and eventually it fell over.
Apparently he had calculated the resonant frequency of the cabinet...

BTW, anyone else remember (and could re-post) the story about the Real
Programmer, working on a machine with drum memory, who wrote a program
with an infinite loop that nevertheless terminated?

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Whats yellow and points north?  A magnetic banana!!