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On 22 Apr 2012 at 9:51, Gene Buckle wrote: I'd first check out my shoes. Could be ESD. I recall a tale told by a friend, Roger, from CDC. Armed with a shiny new degree, he was assigned as his first job to work with Greg Mansfield. When he was working on MACE, Greg would come in after hours and appropriate one of the systems on the manufacturing QA test floor (that's one of the reasons for the O26 console application--the keypunch was a long way away). At any rate, Greg was showing Roger how things work and then excused himself for a call of nature. He invited Roger to fool around a bit at the console while he was gone. After a couple of minutes, Roger decided to type something in. Right at that moment, a power failure hit and the facility was plunged into darkness... --Chuck