From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 16 20:24:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA11410 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 20:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA11385 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 20:23:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA03888; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 20:15:30 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199608170315.UAA03888@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: File System on a tape To: terry@phaeton.artisoft.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 20:15:30 -0700 (MST) Cc: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu, terry@lambert.org, dgy@rtd.com, batie@agora.rdrop.com, chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608170258.TAA03859@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 16, 96 07:58:48 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > How about other absurd computer folk tales? Almost forgot the user who always wanted to know "what does that do?" or "what's that?". Really annoying... We had a disk crash on a 10M removable disk pack. When we got the disk out, the surface scrapings came out of the head access hole in the pack. "What's that brown stuff?" "Bits." --- Then there was the accountant at Morton-Thiokol, where a friend of mine worked. He came in and did inventory on everything. About a week later, he came back in the morning and did inventory again. He looked mildly upset, but was tightlipped. He came back about an hour after he finished the second time with corporate security and a couple of VP's, and demanded to know where the $20,000 computer monitor went. Nobody knew wat he was talking about, and he got real upset. Finally, he showed one of the operators his clipboard. Turns out he was upset because he couldn't affix an inventory tag to the "VAX Performance Monitor". After they finished laughing, they showed him the 9 track tape (it is a VMS software product). My friend won "best user story" at DECUS with that one... --- We convinced one manager that the reason his network connection was so slow was that the bits had to go upstairs (against gravity) to get to his office. --- This isn't really a computer story, but a friend of mine was a missle jockey for the Air Force. There was one of the physical security guys who was always taking himself too seriosly (gun on full auto, etc.). They convinced him that the motion detector housing had a camera in it, and an officer was monitoring the camera for five minutes every 4 hours. To show the officer that everything was OK, and that he wan't under duress, he had to salute the camera when he came on duty, salute it again halfway through, and salute it again before going off duty. --- Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.