These are a number of humerous computer stories that I came across a few months ago. You might find them interesting. I have typed them exactly as I recieved them.
A friend was having a problem with a sticky keyboard for his Mac. He was talking to another friend, who off-handedly suggested putting it into the dishwasher to clean it up. So, my friend did just that! Needless to Say, the keyboard didn’t function any too well after that.
We had an IBM cluster controller controlling some 3270 terminals. We paid $5,000 for an upgrade that would allow more users to be connected to the controller. The IBM service rep came in and REMOVED a board, that was put there to deliberately slow things down.
A computer kept crashing, and every time service was called, it worked fine. It turned out that one of the users would come in, sit down at the console and put his papers and stuff on the top covering the cooling vents. When it crashed, he’d pick up this stuff and leave, removing the evidence. Service people didn’t figure this one out until they decided to watch him work to see why it crashed.
Years ago while working on a large Amdahl 470/6 running DOS & MVS under VM, the system crashed, but gave a system error code XXXXXXX. Upon ‘looking it up in the system manual (not an Amdahl manual) it said:
A SYSTEM ERROR HAS OCCURED WHICH WAS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT TO BE IMPOSSIBLE.