Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site grkermi.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!bbnccv!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!grkermi!andrew From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: I need a joke. Message-ID: <553@grkermi.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 08:55:37 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermi.553 Posted: Thu Aug 15 08:55:37 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 07:46:51 EDT References: <> <202@proper.UUCP> Reply-To: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 21 In article <202@proper.UUCP> judith@proper.UUCP (Judith Abrahms) writes: >> "For services: >> $1.00 for time spent on the job. >> $999.00 for knowing which button to push. >> --------- >> $1000.00 Total Due" > >That's an actual story about Steinmetz. He was called in to find a problem ^^^^^^^^^ >with a mainframe... ^^^^^^^^^ Steinmetz founded the EE Dept. where I went to school (Union) and the engineering division where I worked for 6+ years (GE), so I've heard a lot about his accomplishments... but I was completely unaware that he was brilliant enough to debug a machine that wouldn't exist until at least 25 years after his death! Wow! AWR Oh, yeah, a joke: Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip?