31 Aug
2006
31 Aug
'06
1:21 p.m.
On 8/31/2006 at 8:07 AM Nico de Jong wrote:
My customer was so hysterical about throwing things
out, that I regularly
had to come and take a disk out of the drive, as it had come out of the
envelope :-)
I recall a project that took four people several months and beat its
completion deadline. All of the source was stored on a stack of 8" SSSD
floppies (ISIS-II on an Intel MDS800). Management was so ecstatic that
they had T-shirts printed up and gifted the department with a bunch of
(rather cheap) champagne and hors d'oeuvres. Sometime during the evening,
some wayward bubbly soaked the stack of floppies and no one noticed until
the next day that they were a sticky mess. We removed each cookie from its
jacket, washed it off and installed it in a new jacket--and then promptly
made some backup copies.
No one ever owned up to the spillage.
Cheers,
Chuck