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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

