From a1bdb63ae3e535bc289a0ad5685c25c62c181b37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Brinkhoff Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2021 10:28:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Dave Moon's ghost is loose. With permisson from Jon Taft. --- build/timestamps.txt | 1 + doc/humor/moon's.ghost | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/humor/moon's.ghost diff --git a/build/timestamps.txt b/build/timestamps.txt index 705c30ea..464e7706 100644 --- a/build/timestamps.txt +++ b/build/timestamps.txt @@ -731,6 +731,7 @@ humor/alices.pdp10 198505161952.01 humor/dover.poem 198106262242.08 humor/jargon.68 198308102314.15 humor/mitsai.jargon 197609030347.00 +humor/moon's.ghost 198505082224.50 humor/nasa.jargon 198402162246.45 hur/ddtmem.188 197109101253.58 imlac/arch4.chars 197806021016.03 diff --git a/doc/humor/moon's.ghost b/doc/humor/moon's.ghost new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3ba11da7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/humor/moon's.ghost @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Date: Wed,10 Apr 85 21:25:31 EST +From: Jonathan D. Taft +To: INFO-EXPLORER@MIT-MC +Message-ID: <[MIT-MC].449968.850410.TAFT> + + +This is a note of warning to all users of computer equipment +located on the 9th floor of Tech. Square. + +Dave Moon's ghost is loose. + +On Tuesday April 9th, 1984 Dave Moon's old office, room 926, +was torn down to make additional space on the ninth floor. + +The following morning on April 10th MIT-MC, a computer maintained by +Moon while he was here, and which has since then been kept running +only by tremendous good fortune, experienced serious failure. The +failure was traced by DEC service personnel to a set of boards +installed by MIT and in particular by Moon in the distant past. Upon +further diagnosis it appeared almost certain that the failure was due +to one particular board, a disk controller, board serial number 926. +A group of moderately competent people attempted to pin down the +failure during the afternoon with no luck. The group went to dinner +and while returning to the lab encountered Dave Moon who agreed to +have a look at the situation. Moon queryed the PDP-11 in which the +board resided using a ribbonless ASR-33 teletype that no one thought +to be functional but that was still wired into the back of the eleven. +After poking around at the eleven and examining and handling of the +board he proclaimed that he saw no problems with either. The MC +computer was closed up, booted, and operated with no further problems. +It appeared that all that was really needed was for Moon to exorcise +his ghost, which having been forced from room 926 had taken refuge in +the machine most hospitable to it, in MC's disk control, serial number +926. + \ No newline at end of file