-=> Quoting Bill Swisher to Jim Weller on 11-20-17  13:03 <=-

 -=> Quoting Jim Weller to Mark Lewis <=-
 JW>> Solar flare doppler effect maybe or perhaps software stress
 JW>> fractures. [g]

 BS> Laugh all you want...but back in the 70's I was dealing with this big
 BS> mainframe computer located in Fort Collins Colorado, I was at the end
 BS> of a phoneline with a RJE, Durango Colorado.  I subscribed to a flyer
 BS> that NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder Colorado,
 BS> put out forecastng solar flares.  Surprising amount of similarity
 BS> between that and when the computer crashed. 

Undoubtedly enough to be likely cause and effect instead of coincidence,
I'm sure.....

 BS> When something in memory flips instead of flops because of a stray
 BS> electron, bad things can happen.

Certainly makes sense to me....

ttyl      neb

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