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From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes)
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Subject: Is there no end to computer folklore?
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Date: 14 Mar 89 04:38:54 GMT
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This is one I heard at least third hand, so it is genuine folklore.

A computer company and a railroad got up a project together in the
early 60s to see if computers could help the railroad keep track of its
freight cars.  In the course the the project people had occasion to
rummage around in a freight yard in Los Angeles.  One thing they discovered
was a boxcar filled with brand new 10-year-old automobiles.  Another
discovery was a carload of hides which had been shuttling endlessly between
L.A. and Kansas City for a long period of time, during which the hides
got pretty ripe!
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