On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 12:42:55 +0100, David Cartwright dcartwri...@ymail.com
wrote:
I wanted to post a link to the story of (I think) a DEC shop where a problem
got escalated through levels of CE until they flew in a specialist, but I
cannot find the story. It was hilarious and mildly relevant in
I wanted to post a link to the story of (I think) a DEC shop where a problem
got escalated through levels of CE until they flew in a specialist, but I
cannot find the story. It was hilarious and mildly relevant in an OT way.
Does anyone recall it? Got a link?
D
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On 1 Oct 2009 16:39:34 -0700, l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler)
wrote:
sounds like hardware bug in specific machine ... since it would have
been very evident on in lots of applications.
I came across a hardware bug on a Univac machine, where a CoBOL
program worked fine with debugging
On 1 Oct 2009 21:40:56 -0700, gerh...@valley.net (Gerhard Postpischil)
wrote:
I came close to that, once. The 1403 printer had an interlock to
prevent it from running when the cover was open, and ours
developed a defective microswitch just when a big customer
needed a rush print job. I used a
Rick Fochtman wrote:
Consider chewing gum and bailing wire?? :-)
An old war story is always fun, ne c'est pas?
I've told this one before here, but it is right up
this little side alley Ed Jaffee started. This one
involves a missing hammer.
I had standalone time on a 360/75 one weekend,
Following on from the instances cited already, I recall an error on the
370/155 where Convert To Binary of 100,000,001 did not work correctly. This
was reported at a UK GUIDE meeting in the early seventies to a somewhat
incredulous audience - so it is unlikely to be an Urban Myth.
Surely
Mike Kerford-Byrnes wrote:
Following on from the instances cited already, I recall an error on the
370/155 where Convert To Binary of 100,000,001 did not work correctly. This
was reported at a UK GUIDE meeting in the early seventies to a somewhat
incredulous audience - so it is unlikely to be
gerh...@valley.net (Gerhard Postpischil) writes:
In the eighties I worked for a service bureau that provided primarily
on-line Wylbur and batch services. We acquired two 4341
processors. While the customers didn't need it, I started working on
TSO. On the bare test system, I could log on and
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In the eighties I worked for a service bureau that provided primarily
on-line Wylbur and batch services. We acquired two 4341 processors.
While the customers didn't need it, I started working on TSO. On the
bare test
://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#74 Best IEFACTRT (off topic)
however, charlie (invented compareswap instruction ... CAS was chosen
because they are charlie's initials) found a implementation flaw in
360/67s ... that I don't believe ever got fixed. he was trying to
squeeze a couple more cycles out
Rick Fochtman wrote:
Consider chewing gum and bailing wire?? :-)
I came close to that, once. The 1403 printer had an interlock to
prevent it from running when the cover was open, and ours
developed a defective microswitch just when a big customer
needed a rush print job. I used a paper
Your story about the broken brancher reminded me of an event I experienced
many years ago.
We had installed a new CEC for a new workload we were bringing into the
shop, and I was tasked with bringing up VM and VSE on the box. I had just
installed maintnenance for VM and IPLed. Did not notice
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