On Mar 30, 1994 at 22:58, Roy Mcneill of 3:711/934 wrote:

 RM> me, I'm going to make the led display show the temperature of the cpu.

On an IBM RS/6000, a flashing "888" on the front LED panel is
something you *don't* want to see - the "crazy eights" indicate
*seriously* bad karma for the Unix workstation.

So what did we do?  We wrote a cron job to periodically flash
"888" on the front of the machine.  :-)


    - dave
    david{at}harpo.nepean.uws.edu.au

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