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From: peggy@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Peggy Shambo)
Newsgroups: rec.humor,rec.humor.d,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Keywords: Rebuilding FS from Free Blocks
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Date: 19 Feb 89 12:17:51 GMT
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In article <4688@ptsfa.PacBell.COM> dmt@ptsfa.PacBell.COM (Dave Turner) writes:
>The sun had shined on the end-of-tape sensors which caused the tapes
>to rewind.
>
>After that one of the nightly duties of the graveyard shift supervisor
>was to insure that the drapes were closed before the sun came up.

Wow.  Maybe *that* explains things a little differently about the computer
center I used to work at.  Our computer room was set back from the front of
the building, but had floor-to-ceiling windowed wall that looked out onto
(or in from) what used to be a big glassed-in lobby.  At night (usually at
the start of 2nd shift) drapes were pulled inside the computer room.  Now, I
had been told that it was to prevent snipers being able to see into the
place at night.  The sun-in-the-morning story sounds more plausible, as
there were many tape drives facing towards the windowed wall, and the lobby
faced east... perfect for the sun to hit the BOT/EOT sensors.

Anyway, the daytime operators had to dressed in a more professional manner,
while the off-shift operators (when we had no corporate visitors peering
into the "fishbowl") wore just about what we felt like.
 



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