28 Jul
2008
28 Jul
'08
7:31 p.m.
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Chuck Guzis wrote:
ISTR a few folks smoking in the machine rooms at CDC;
what was
verboten was soft drinks and coffee on the console. Go ahead, eat a
sandwich or a candy bar, but no drinks. Apparently a lot of hassle
cleaning out Coke spilled into the keyboards.
For some unknown reason, Pepsi was the more notorious.
After Three Mile Island, Saturday Night Live postulated that it was caused
by "The Pepsi Syndrome", the result of spilling a Pepsi into a computer
keyboard.
Shortly after that, the U.S.A. and USSR (CCCP) normalized diplomatic
relations enough to import vodka and export Pepsi to Russia.
That was followed almost immediately by Chernobyl.
Surely that could not be coincidence!
What did "Pepsi" Sculley do to Apple?