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Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall!
From: bzs () theworld com
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:06:13 -0400
One day, when I ran the Harvard Chemistry computing facility, I was greeted on my way in by panicked profs and grad students that the big VMS VAX (8MB! two memory cabinets! we gave tours!) was behaving strangely I forget what probably crawling. A lot of its use was for long-running jobs, week plus, basically inverting matrices. So I lept into action, whipped off my heavy winter coat and tossed it onto one of the big disk drives and wham the system just halted. Static I guess. Came back ok. Problem solved. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs () TheWorld com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*
Current thread:
- Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Sean Donelan (Aug 29)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Alan Buxey (Aug 29)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Aaron C. de Bruyn (Aug 29)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Ken Chase (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Keith Stokes (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Larry Sheldon (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Mark Andrews (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! bzs (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Aaron C. de Bruyn (Aug 29)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Alan Buxey (Aug 29)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! A . L . M . Buxey (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Ken Chase (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! A . L . M . Buxey (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! bzs (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Eric Kuhnke (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! bzs (Aug 30)
- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Larry Sheldon (Aug 30)
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- Re: Don't press the big red buttom on the wall! Scott Weeks (Aug 29)