rick (10/10/82)
Has anybody ever had a tie caught in a card-reader? I had a boss once who always wore bow ties for that very reason. (He had other foibles too, wearing a bow tie was one of the less strange things he did.) Rick Thomas pyuxbb!u1100s!rick
rjk (10/10/82)
Ha! We've got one of those 125 IPS 1600 BPI CYPHER Cuisinarts... If one is stupid enough to defeat the interlock after gazing upon the take-up reel during one of its 3-horespower rewinds, then one has no recourse after injury! On the 3B20S, that beast is kept behind two lexan doors. I still leave the area while it rewinds. Randy King ..we13!rjk
bjb (10/11/82)
#R:we13:-15600:whuxlb:5200013:000:53 whuxlb!bjb Oct 11 08:11:00 1982 ON a related subject - WHOPEE! Our CYPHER now works!
jed (10/12/82)
Back in the days of the IBM 360/65 with its Selectric hardcopy console we had a problem with an operator who was nearsited and had long hair. It seems she was bending over the console to read the most recent message when the machine started typing. It wound her hair around the ball like spaghetti on a fork. The FE had to cut her hair off to get her loose. Also, the system went down because the console went not ready while she was getting her impromptu trim.
wagner (10/18/82)
Selectric typeballs have been guilty of much greater injuries than just cutting hair. People have had pretty bad head injuries by having their hair pulled in to selectric consoles. The CEs who work on them always tuck their ties into their shirts, for similar reasons. Michael Wagner, UTCS
jim (10/22/82)
After reading all that stuff about computational injuries, I should have known better. But I didn't. This morning I had to pull an Ethernet board out of one of our vaxes, and guess what -- I tore open my finger on the neighboring board (a Decnet board -- maybe it wanted revenge). A while ago I was removing an IC from a socket, and the chip suddenly slipped sideways as one side came out and the other stayed in. The pins on the side that came out pierced the skin and lodged themselves in my thumb. When I pulled the chip out of my thumb I had seven tiny but painful holes oozing blood. And of course I've had my share of soldering iron burns. But I once knew a guy who worked at a TV station who could tell AC from DC and approximate voltage by shorting his hand across the wires in question. I don't know if he ever injured himself doing this.