[geeks] We've all had days like this

Michael A. Turner mturner at whro.org
Mon Apr 28 11:09:01 CDT 2003


	Figure if anyone can appreciate this it would be this list. This is
from computerworld's sharktank.

	Don't Slam The Door 

Circa 1980, this New York bank's PDP-11/40 minicomputer gets moved across
town. "The techs put this pretty large system -- about the size of a VW
minibus -- back together in record time, a couple of days," pilot fish says.
"They finished their diagnostic, closed one remaining cabinet door -- and
sliced through a misrouted cable, which shorted and burned out almost every
system in the PDP-11. It took two weeks to repair all the damage."  





Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org


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