Originally Posted By: TheFallibleFiend

At about 1 min in, you can hear the computer printing. We had two of these in our class; one can imagine what it sounded like to have been in that classroom.


We had about twelve in the room where I spent much of my lab assisting time. Two sounds like it would have been relatively quiet. When the computer crashed the message announcing the crash that came to all the time-sharing teletype terminals would ripple down the line. The students would all let out a groan and the lab assistant whould breathe a sigh of relief. The message, BTW, was:

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