[GreenKeys] 32 and 33's

[Bob Camp]

Hi

I once worked for a guy who threw a 33 up against the wall when he  
hit a bug. It did a pretty major job on both the wall and the 33. He  
and I parted ways soon after ....

Bob


On Oct 6, 2007, at 11:28 PM, David I. Emery wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 09:17:47PM -0500, Don Robert House wrote:
>
>> Then there were the high school time-sharing machines.  These 33s
>> took a real physical beating with each and every student trying their
>> programs over and over, not to mention hitting the machine with their
>> fists when the program did not run correctly.
>
> 	I'm ashamed to admit this, but I totaled the plastic case on a
> 33 serving as console on a pioneering prototype supermarket POS  
> scanning
> system I was working on debugging the software for one evening in the
> 70s when I found a particularly egregious bug in the code after a
> frustrating couple of days chasing it fruitlessly (and after a beer or
> two at dinner helped lubricate me a bit).  When I finally found the  
> bug
> and realized just how stupid it was,  I pounded hard on the case in
> frustration and triumph at finally nailing the bug and cracked it in
> two.  Fortunately I knew how to repair 33's and quickly grabbed a
> replacement case from  a spare and broken machine collecting dust  
> in our
> junk room before anyone got upset.   But indeed the syndrome of  
> pounding
> on a 33 when software didn't work was pretty widespread, they were  
> very
> poundable objects somehow...
>
> -- 
>   Dave Emery N1PRE/AE, die at dieconsulting.com  DIE Consulting,  
> Weston, Mass 02493
> "An empty zombie mind with a forlorn barely readable weatherbeaten
> 'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on the weed encrusted  
> pole - in
> celebration of what could have been, but wasn't and is not to be  
> now either."
>
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