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He was a skater boy. We said, 'see you later, boy' – and the VAX machine mysteriously began to work as intended

Gravesender

I remember a similar story involving a PDP-11 installed on a mezzanine in a warehouse that was experiencing random restarts. Eventually someone figured out that the event was occurring whenever a fork lift with a gasoline engine passed underneath the computer. The fault was with inadequate EMI suppression on the fork lift ignition wiring. The solution was to post a "No Lift Trucks" sign under the mezzanine.

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