I was working, in Montreal, in the early 1980's. We had a true rookie, out on the floor sitting at an AMDAHL console on the Control Element of one of our 470's.
The Payroll clerk had just come in with the bi-weekly card decks for our run. She handed them to the reader operator, and he fed them in, as the cheque run started. Suddenly, she noticed that it was the inputs for the run, two weeks ago. She suddenly screamed that we had to stop the system, it was an emergency. The rookie obliged and hit the big red button to the right of the screen. Bamf! It took four Amdahl reps over 12 hours to replace everything that overheated, because with an EPO, even the fans stop. The rookie got to keep his job though. He was, as I stated, a true rookie, with less than an hour's worth of experience. Of course, we kidded him mercilessly. Especially, the rookies, of which I was one of them. At the time, I was less than 6 months on the job. I never did find out what happened to the payroll clerk, though. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
