Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!se-sd!cliff 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 References: <1109@idec.stc.co.uk> <501@sp7040.UUCP> Reply-To: cliff@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM (Cliff Bamford) Organization: RX/TX Communications at NCR Systems Engineering, San Diego Lines: 21 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! -- cliff.bamford@sandiego.ncr.com (619)693-5724 {ucsd,cbosgd}!ncr-sd!se-sd!cliff