[Info-vax] OT: the Daily WTF for today is a VAX/VMS story

[William Pechter]

In article <n9rc5l$p3v$1 at dont-email.me>,
David Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>William Pechter wrote:
>
>> There once was a guy who worked on the Memorex assembly line who supposedly
>> got fired for putting Tide Laundry detergent sample boxes in the RP06's
>> at ship time.  According to my RP06 maintenance instructor -- most of these 
>> were removed at DEC when they checked the drives out before shipping. 
>> 
>> I assume DEC added the DCL's in house on the modified 677-1 drives.
>> 
>> However, someone received one and called DEC which brought the wrath of
>> the front office down on Memorex and the tech got canned.
>
>One of the biggest problems in this world is too many people lack a sense of 
>humor ....

I guess they were woried about soap contamination from the samples causing
head crashes... Since the stuff was usually caught at DEC a quick wipe down
with alcohol and you were probably good... Soap powder in the field
would not be a good thing.  The instructor used to work for Memorex and he
heard this from his buddies back in manufacturing there.

Some of the stories I've heard back in Field Service may have been 
apocryphal, however.

I believed the DEC Field Service stories below were true -- until I found docs
that #1 is denied by Nabisco and no info on #2....

1. -- the Double Stuffed Oreo cookies was a VAX Industrial Floating point 
error.

2. -- PDP failure after summer storm kills large number of Purdue Chickens in
Maryland industrial farm when the PDP (8?) lost it's mind after a lightning hit
and overfed the chickens to death.

Bill
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