laura@hoptoad.uucp (Laura Creighton) (02/14/86)
A friend of mine did the ``what is the IQ of the operator'' test while at university. Take 10 grungy LP records, and glue them together. See if you can get the operator to mount this ``disk pack''. The results were spectacularily successful. The IQ was deemed to be either a negative or imaginary number -- every disk drive in the place suffered a head crash. -- Laura Creighton ihnp4!hoptoad!laura laura@lll-crg.arpa
rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson) (02/15/86)
At a Navy research organization which shall remain nameless, a guy got P.O.'d and decided to do something about it. At the time they still worked on cards; usually LOTS of cards, so they had these ultra-high-speed card readers that would take a full box (about 2.5 feet long) of cards at a time. This guy took a deck of cards, hollowed out the entire inside of the deck, filled it with very rotten bananas, and submitted his job. The results were phenomenal -- it took them 2 weeks to clean out the reader enough so that it would work part of the time at least, and I don't know how long to clean the walls and ceiling... Aside to Laura Creighton -- I think your `operator IQ' story is the best I have ever seen -- bravo! -- The MAD Programmer -- 919-228-3313 (Cornet 291) alias: Curtis Jackson ...![ ihnp4 ulysses cbosgd mgnetp ]!burl!rcj ...![ ihnp4 cbosgd akgua masscomp ]!clyde!rcj