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Whenever I hear tales about liars, I remember this story, which simply tops them all.
It was in those early days, when I was still a young inexperienced computer officer in the IAF. I was in charge of maintaining the old bulky PDP-11 machines that kept inventory at the bases. One day I had to visit a small air force base in the north, and perform some irregular maintenance. The irregular part was erasing their entire hard disk and re-installing it again. This is something we didn't do quite often back then, so I made sure with the operator at the base that all their inventory data had been backed up on tape. In fact, I called her the day before, and asked her to create two backup tapes instead of one by running the backup procedure twice in a row. "No problems", the girl said, "you'll get your two tapes".
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It was in those early days, when I was still a young inexperienced computer officer in the IAF. I was in charge of maintaining the old bulky PDP-11 machines that kept inventory at the bases. One day I had to visit a small air force base in the north, and perform some irregular maintenance. The irregular part was erasing their entire hard disk and re-installing it again. This is something we didn't do quite often back then, so I made sure with the operator at the base that all their inventory data had been backed up on tape. In fact, I called her the day before, and asked her to create two backup tapes instead of one by running the backup procedure twice in a row. "No problems", the girl said, "you'll get your two tapes".
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