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29 comments- TAGS:carpenter, minicomputer
- IT TOPICS:Hardware, Management, Security, Servers & Data Center
It's the 1980s, and this pilot fish is the admin for his company's large minicomputer. So when all the terminals suddenly stop responding, it's fish's problem.
"I walked down the hall to the machine room to see what had happened," says fish. "My eyes bugged out when I saw that a group of carpenters had somehow gotten past the locked door and had slid the two washing-machine-size disk drives apart and were using them for sawhorses while cutting wood!"
Get out of my machine room! yells fish.
Lead carpenter replies, "Make me, and then I can laugh as you're fired."
Fish quickly goes to his boss, who goes to his boss, and the problem escalates up the chain of command until someone high enough decides that the carpenters should indeed leave.
"By then they were done with their project -- putting in a plywood backboard for some telephone equipment -- and gone," fish says.
"It cost us a fortune to have both drives repaired, and I had to rebuild the OS, then restore all the data from backups, ruining my weekend."
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