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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
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Date: 20 Sep 88 20:08:47 GMT
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>>
>>He also mentioned something about his sister spilling chocolate syrup all over
>>everything once...:-)


We used to DREEEEAAAMMM about chocolate syrup on our floppies!  It was
the only stuff that would cool the nuclear fires enough for us to pry
the glowing remnants of magnetic coating out of the reactor cores!

I had a floppy that actually attacked the drive one night!  Two full
magazines from an AK-47 didn't even slow it down.  As it leapt sideways
into the drive slot we hacked at it with fireaxes.  No luck!
Eventually we cut all power to the computer center and called in SAC
for repeated air strikes!  We still got 87.2% of the data off the disk,
which was enough for it to replicate onto another disk and start
infecting IBM's Watson Research Center!

And ya try to tell these kids nowadays what computing used to be like,
they don't even believe ya....
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--    bob,mon			(bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu)
--    "Aristotle was not Belgian..."	- Wanda