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- From: p0070621@oxford-brookes.ac.uk (Tommy Wareing)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Anecdote wanted...
- Date: 24 Mar 1994 08:09:36 -0600
- Organization: Oxford Brookes University
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- Ken Corbin (kenc@fenris.com) wrote:
- > My favorite was a, possibly apocryphal, tale that an early version of a
- > new fighter control software would have flipped the aircraft
- > upside down if it crossed the equator.
-
- The one I heard was that Polaris missiles store the "time since switch-on"
- in a short. The result was that, during the gulf war, they had to be
- rebooted about every 18 hours for the guidance software to work
- properly.
-
- What I want to know is where it displayed the "Keyboard not present -
- Press F1 to continue" message :)
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