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to: Geo.
from: Rich Holm
date: 2002-11-07 08:59:50
subject: Re: uptime

From: Rich Holm 


So, that's the famous box...

Cheers,
Rich




In article , georger{at}nls.net says...
>  well this machine isn't sitting in a chair doing nothing, it's doing
> exactly what it's been doing every day for a few years. Serving spreadsheets
> and printing purchase orders for our purchasing department. Not a heavy load
> but if it went down during the day my phone would be ringing within 5
> minutes.
>
> There was a period of about 15 months where I could see it on the network
> but couldn't locate the physical box, one of those..
>
> Geo.
>
> "Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
> news:e18jsu0p7caq7v4hgomjirv7l7hichq16n{at}4ax.com...
> >
> > When I used to work for the record company, way back when, we bought
> > some of the mylar backing for cassette tapes from Dupont.  I visited
> > one of the Dupont plants in South Carolina (somewhere around there).
> > The plant held the US record for the number of hours worked without a
> > loss-of-work accident.  There were congratulatory banners everywhere.
> >
> > There also was a guy sitting at his workstation with his arm in a
> > sling.  He didn't look too good.  Seems he had an accident the day
> > before and he really should have been home.  But that would have
> > ruined their record, so he had to come to work and sit in a chair.....
> >
> >  /m
> >
> >
>
>
>

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