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- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!mv!world!dp
- From: dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa)
- Subject: Re: Computer Superstition
- Message-ID: <BxzIoD.Iu4@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Nov19.174914.28632@osf.org> <BxzAs5.397@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:33:48 GMT
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- My favorite little bit of superstition actually got cast in paper -
- The written directions for building a product world for the TI
- explorers at Palladian, had a a first step "Go into dp's office, find
- the sledgehammer, and place it gently on the disk cabinet" (and no,
- someone else wrote the directions)
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- my favorite computer go-faster gesture, is to make a motion like
- turning a crank next to the monitor; winding it up as it were... I
- keep meaning to find an old machine tool crank and fasten it to my
- monitor...
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- obfoklore - the Harvard Mark I had a crank for use when single stepping.
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