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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!john
- From: john@gu.uwa.edu.au (John West)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Computer Superstition
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 07:40:43 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- Murray_Moffatt@kcbbs.gen.nz (Murray Moffatt) writes:
-
- >We've all heard of common superstitions such as not walking under ladders
- >and throwing salt over your left shoulder if you spill some, but are
- >there any superstitions to do with computers?
-
- Well it isn't really the same thing, but there's a machine hiding somewhere
- in this room that just will not boot during winter unless you speak nicely
- to it, stroking some of the chips for a few minutes. You see... it was built
- in the summer. The oscillator really doesn't like the cold.
-
- John West
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