Re: But can I get F1 on my BT account
"quite serious operators who had undergone a humour bypass"
At Dartmouth College we had an ex marine gunnery sergeant as a computer operator. The business manager of the center would sneak in and deposit a large cardboard box labelled "bomb" on all sides on the console typewriter. His reaction was to drop kick it out of the room.
Another story I heard was at MIT they had a "fire hose" drum used for swapping. One day a plasterer caused the filters to clog up. "No problem," said the field engineer, pulled out the clogged filters and before he could replace them the drum inhaled enough plaster to totally crash every head on the device.