[456] in Humor
HUMOR: the latest in realistic simulations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Thu Sep 15 16:40:56 1994
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 16:23:13 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 1994 20:10:15 -0600 (MDT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN%ARIES@VAXF.Colorado.EDU>...
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From: gary@water.ca.gov
To: sequoia@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Bounced mail, [...]
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 17:51:36 PDT
Bounced Mail
In an effort to simulate an emergency during a fire drill the fire
marshall turned off the power in half of the resources building. When the
power was turned back on hundreds of computers and laser printers screamed
"feed me!" This electrical little shop of horrors overwhelmed transformers
starting fires. 2500 people spent the day in a park next to the resources
building waiting to return to work. Our systems are back on-line now,
e-mail was not lost but responses from our staff might be a bit delayed.
[...]
