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Remember the Dutch kid who stuck his finger in a dam to save the village? Here's the IT equivalent

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Re: Junior Customer Engineer

Back when I started using IBM 360/30 and 360/50 machines, I was told that the big red "Emergency Stop" was not a graceful shutdown but a "pull out the plug, someone's being electrocuted!" procedure.

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