[sci.electronics] Warning mesages

adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt) (01/11/88)

In article <19808@amdcad.AMD.COM>, phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:
> -- 
> "how long will the machine be down?"
> "as long as you stand there and bother me"
> 
> Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com

Another such message was put on the door of a room full of terminals when Odin,
one of our Orion computers, was out of action for various reasons.

"Odin will be down for all of today, and probably tomorrow."

Translation: Odin will be down until this (undated) notice is removed.
-- 
 "Keyboard? Tis quaint!" - M. Scott

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