RE: PWRDWNSYS - Trivia

["Bruce Vining" <bvining@xxxxxxxxxx>]

When I was a SE in the field I had one customer where a developer had just
finished a major piece of work that she was very (rightly) proud of.  She
walked through the data center swinging her purse around, and the clasp of
her purse unfortunately caught the S/38 power switch on the side...  Really
ruined her afternoon.

Bruce




                      "McCallion,
                      Martin"                   To:       
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> P.S. IT Managers are the bane of Operations.  Someone recounted the
> annecdote of one intending to prompt PWRDWNSYS but presssing
> Enter.  My
> idiot manager pressed the Load button on the S/38 (because the IPL was
> taking too long, or he liked the pretty colour of the Load
> button -- light
> sky blue as I recall, or something equally lame).

I once heard tell of someone who hung his jacket on the old S/38
"Emergency power off" switch.  Later he grabbed his jacket and pulled it
off.

Of course, that switch worked by being pulled...

Cheers,

Martin.

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