Xref: utzoo rec.humor:19827 comp.misc:5490 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!ukma!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith From: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) Newsgroups: rec.humor,comp.misc Subject: Re: Is there no end to computer folklore? Message-ID: Date: 14 Mar 89 17:44:26 GMT References: <6669@saturn.ucsc.edu> Distribution: na Organization: M. R. Smith Consulting, New Brunswick, NJ Lines: 34 Here's another one: The lab I work for on occasion had a long bench made out of what is apparently sheet rock. On one end of the bench, one set in either corner, sat some apparatus with a very strong magnet included. These apparati have sat on this bench for a few years. One day, a salesman for a computerized chemical analysis system came in with a demo model, which he placed on the end of the bench away from the apparati. It sat there for two days, and at the end of the two days, his screen was blazing in technicolor. He figured that the monitor was going bad. Later, my boss put a computer that had been displaced by a newer model at the far end of the bench. After a week, the monitor was Easter Egg Blue, and the system refused to boot. He moved it, and the monitor cleared, but parts of the hard disk were wiped. Luckily he had a backup. So, he tried divining with metal stirring rods, and sure enough, wherever he put the rods on the bench, they spun to face north! The whole bench is magnetized!!! The apparati have been moved to separate benches, and now my boss is trying to figure out a way to demagnetize the bench (any ideas?). (NOTE: this note is not for distribution to pay-per-view or pay-per-timeperiod computer systems, or rec.humor.funny) Mark -- Mark Smith (alias Smitty) "Be careful when looking into the distance, RPO 1604; P.O. Box 5063 that you do not miss what is right under your nose." New Brunswick, NJ 08903-5063 rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith (OK, Bob?) msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu Copyright 1989, Mark Smith. All Rights Reserved.