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From: cliff@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com (Cliff Bamford)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Message-ID: <1635@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com>
Date: 22 Sep 88 18:07:43 GMT
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Reply-To: cliff@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM (Cliff Bamford)
Organization: RX/TX Communications at NCR Systems Engineering, San Diego
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I was taking my diskette over to a friend's house when a gust of
wind blew off all my clothes, including the diskette in my back pocket,
which (wouldn't ya just know it!) landed in a black hole that my
freind's kids had created with their chemistry set and left lying 
right there in the driveway (the little rascals!)

Naturally, I had some unexposed Xray plates handy, so I quickly
held them up in a position to intercept the fluxions emanating from
our side of the event horizon. After drying the plates with a hair
drier, and inserting them (without reformatting) into my freind's
drive, we were able to recover fully 68% of my original data, PLUS
several gigabytes from a parallel space-time continuum that
described how to cure cancer, the secret of immortality, and 
why David Letterman has his own show! Unfortunatly, it was all
copyrighted, so we of course had to erase it.

You can bet I'll be more careful the NEXT time I drive over to my freind's!


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