On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:09:12 -0500, Ed Gould 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>...
>I killed my career by replying, "Actually, sir, it's cooling the
>room. The
>computer is over there."
>...

It was a standing joke at my job that the datacenter management
couldn't tell the air conditioners from the CPUs.  Then I found out 
that early NCP processed BTUs[1] and decided that IBM couldn't 
tell the difference either.

Pat O'Keefe

[!]  Basic Transmission Units

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