I attended and worked at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, CA, USA, in the mid-1970s. We had a 370-155 (later 158).
The library was a few buildings away. It had a micro-wave connection to the library at our sister campus in the next city over (Huntington Beach if I remember correctly). For awhile, every morning we would get a system crash: a hardware crash, the CPU just died. They traced it down to when the microwave got fired up just before the library officially opened. Once the antenna was re-directed slightly everything was fine. We told the students that the elves had to empty the bit buckets after the overnight production runs. Some of them actually believed us. We had another issue there. The young ladies liked to have long hair and liked to wear loose scarves around their necks. We used a lot of APL and had the type-ball terminals. Those terminals LOVED to eat hair and scarves. Lloyd ----- Original Message ---- From: Scott Ford <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, March 22, 2012 4:47:57 PM Subject: Re: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets All, Someone told while working in Europe they worked not far from a big radar station.. Every time the disc made a sweep they crashed on the mainframe, anyone heard that before ? Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Mar 22, 2012, at 4:44 PM, Ed Finnell <[email protected]> wrote: > Unless they discharge a thousand lbs. of Halon at $72 USD per pound. > > > In a message dated 3/22/2012 12:43:50 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Hydrotesting is cheap > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
