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To: Christine Traut who wrote (11280)	4/30/1998 4:13:00 PM
From: Bobby Yellin	Read Replies (1) of 13949

The great unknown works in mysterious ways..today ran into a former operator of mainframes from as early as the late sixties..I asked him how they shut down computers for maintenance and repair..he tried to remember and to the best of his recollection he said that they would feed in a huge deck of cards and would get a huge sort program as a result...sounds like a program closed the systems very very carefully..(remember those card decks..a lot of us would punch up our own cards and get lazy about entering sequence numbers..scarey at the thought of dropping all those cards..but laziness would often win out) think I found the answer to code 99..will check a bit further..but I think that was one false alarm.. bobby

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