A character catastrophe for a joker working his last day
concerning the overuse of messaging and the dangers of a careless character or two. Or three.
Our story today comes from a reader Regomized as"Dan" and takes us back to the 1980s, when he was working for a certain oil company. At his site were two IBM systems. One was for interactive users and ran VM/CMS and the other was a batch system running MVS. This being the days of mainframes,"there was a computer operator for each system," recalled Dan,"largely responsible for hanging tapes."
Our story is set long before the days of Slack, and even predates IRC, but the operators still managed to communicate without having to physically talk to each other using thecommand. A simple enough thing that permitted chatting via the console. The incident happened just after lunch when the two operators were messaging each other. This was also around the time that the disaster thrillerdeals with a nuclear plant brought perilously close to meltdown.
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