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From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Keywords: green-houses diskdrives
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Date: 14 Feb 89 05:16:28 GMT
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In article <15301@oberon.USC.EDU> gshippen@pollux.usc.edu (Gregory Shippen) writes:
>Way back in the stone-age of microprocessors I worked for a small company which
>made a TI9900 based machine for dentist offices.
...
>very light brown.  The drive was filthy.  Due to the strange shape of the
>drive, we asked the field service guy just where the drive had been.  He 
>explained that the doctor who owned the office had put the entire system 
>except the terminal in was described to me as "the green-house".

Randy Rorden told me about another happening of this kind at the same company,
when Greg was not there.  They got a disk drive in for repair and the filter
was clogged with fine gray abrasive dust.  He asked where it had been, and
found it had come from an office in Yakima, Wash.  At the time of the
Mt. St. Helens eruption!

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