Re: University credentials used by third parties

[Pete Hickey <pete () SHADOWS UOTTAWA CA>]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:50:50PM -0400, Bob Kalal wrote:
> We once had four Xerox mainframes sharing a portion of main memory - if you
> toggled the wrong address, all four crashed and a police car gumball on top
> of the memory cabinet lit up along with a siren. There was also a clock margin
> switch that let you run hot, but the manual specifically disclaimed mathematical
> accuracy with a fast clock.

Ahhhh.. Our old PDP-8.  Sometimes your program would fail because of hardware
errors.  One of the boards would not be making good contact.  We had a rubber
mallot, and we would whack the thing to seat the cards better.

Such satisfaction....

You run your program and it crashes.  Then you whack the machine with a hammer
and it WORKS!!!!!.

Tried that with an ipod, and only ended up with ipod pieces.


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Pete Hickey                      
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