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- From: henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Daemeon)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
- Subject: Repost: Omar:Walkman Effect
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 21:25:12 GMT
- Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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- I just thought that some people might want to see the ORIGINAL
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- a.f.c Omar story that started all of this. This is completely true and
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- has not been altered in any way. It hasn't been jived, borked, valley-
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- girled or anything else.
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- I go to Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana and spend
- a great deal of time in the Computing Center just screwing around,
- wasting time. I sat down to log into a terminal one afternoon to log
- in and noticed that someone had forgotten to log off. After a quick
- check, I discovered that it was the person who at the time was sitting
- across from me. I thought that it was sort of silly for him to be logged
- in to his own terminal and the one across from him but this individual
- was well known to be short on clues. His name is Omar and is from
- Texas but his family is from Pakistan. He talks really funny too, sort
- of like he has peanut butter in his mouth.
-
- Well, I thought that this was too good of an opportunity to pass
- up. After some discussion with others in the room, we decided that I
- would kill the process he was currently in, effectively logging HIM out.
- The action of his screen suddenly going blank elicited the response of
- Haaaaaay!, Ted, what happened? (Ted was my roommate and a computing center
- manager) Well, every time that Omar logged in, I would log him back out.
- He was Very upset over this. What's worse is that after about 3 or 4
- times, another friend (Mike) who happened to have a walkman, went over to
- Omar and said "You know, I've noticed that every time I push play on my
- walkman, your terminal logs you out." Lo and behold, Mike pushed play and
- I logged Omar out. Omar, being an electrical engineering major should have
- seen through this immediately but as I said, he is a little short on clues.
- Mike proceeded to make a big deal about it and demonstrated the heretofore
- unknown "walkman effect" to everyone who entered the room. This was almost
- more than poor Omar could handle. He decided to call his father, a physics
- professor at University of Texas and ask him if this was possible. (For
- electromagnetic interference from a walkman to log out a VT220) Much
- to everyone's surprise, his father thought it was possible and instructed
- Omar to run some tests. (Either Omar's father is as clueless as he is or
- thinks he is a moron)
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- Two days later, Omar borrowed Mike's walkman to run the tests.
- Mike was doing homework in the computer center and was present for the
- test. Everyone in the room thought they knew what was about to happen.
- They thought that since I was not there logging him out and that since
- Omar wasn't logged in twice, the test wouldn't work. Omar stepped up
- to the terminal, pushed play and...........his terminal went blank.
- Everyone present was utterly shocked. How could it be? That was until
- they looked up and noticed t
- Ted grinning. Omar had indeed forgotten to log out again and Ted had
- control of the process.
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- To this day, Omar doesn't know what caused the mysterious
- "walkman effect"
-
- -Daemeon, The Keeper of the
- Omar Archive.
- You may find this one humorous and maybe not.
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-