[32891] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Packet Loss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (doug@safeport.com)
Sat Dec 16 14:38:52 2000
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 14:35:14 -0500 (EST)
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I have a hanging chad story. I worked for GE subbing to NASA at Marshall
Space Flight Center in the late 60's. Our group programmed the Atlas
first stage simulations. We had such a program. Never found the bug
until one of the operators dropped the deck. We would not have found it
then except he (they) tried to put the deck back together :)
I do not rememver if this was a 7090 or a GE-235 program. Whichever
system it was an IBM keypunch that did the deed. As I recall both
systems did checksums so I guess in the "open" position it must have
closed its neighbor.
> At 11:20 AM 12/15/2000, you wrote:
> >On the other hand, I did tens of thousands of lines of code on IBM
> >punched cards and I never
> >once recall a bug caused by a chad, hanging or otherwise.
> >
> > Regards
> > Marshall Eubanks
>
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