Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!hobbit From: hobbit@sunybcs.UUCP (Thomas Pellitieri) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: System error message Message-ID: <232@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 18:39:20 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.232 Posted: Fri Aug 10 18:39:20 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 00:39:50 EDT Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science Lines: 23 [ MUMPS ] A friend of mine who works with DSM-11 on a PDP 11/70 tells of one system shutdown message which was almost incorporated into the system by a programmer who was leaving the company. Computer: Your entire data base is being destroyed. Is there anything else you would like to know? [Yes] Operator: NO!!!Computer: Okay! The last thing to go will be the operating syst... (This is somewhat funnier if you read the computer lines in a very optimistic tone, as per Eddie from the HHGTTG) -- -The Parker Hobbit UUCP: {allegra, seismo}!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!hobbit or try decvax!sunybcs!hobbit "When your song is over and the words have all been sung We'll hold on to the meaning. Keep your love alive and young"