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Date: Wed,10 Apr 85 21:25:31 EST
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From: Jonathan D. Taft <TAFT@MIT-MC>
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To: INFO-EXPLORER@MIT-MC
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Message-ID: <[MIT-MC].449968.850410.TAFT>
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This is a note of warning to all users of computer equipment
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located on the 9th floor of Tech. Square.
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Dave Moon's ghost is loose.
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On Tuesday April 9th, 1984 Dave Moon's old office, room 926,
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was torn down to make additional space on the ninth floor.
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The following morning on April 10th MIT-MC, a computer maintained by
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Moon while he was here, and which has since then been kept running
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only by tremendous good fortune, experienced serious failure. The
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failure was traced by DEC service personnel to a set of boards
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installed by MIT and in particular by Moon in the distant past. Upon
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further diagnosis it appeared almost certain that the failure was due
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to one particular board, a disk controller, board serial number 926.
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A group of moderately competent people attempted to pin down the
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failure during the afternoon with no luck. The group went to dinner
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and while returning to the lab encountered Dave Moon who agreed to
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have a look at the situation. Moon queryed the PDP-11 in which the
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board resided using a ribbonless ASR-33 teletype that no one thought
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to be functional but that was still wired into the back of the eleven.
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After poking around at the eleven and examining and handling of the
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board he proclaimed that he saw no problems with either. The MC
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computer was closed up, booted, and operated with no further problems.
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It appeared that all that was really needed was for Moon to exorcise
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his ghost, which having been forced from room 926 had taken refuge in
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the machine most hospitable to it, in MC's disk control, serial number
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926.
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