Author: Paul Clarke
Date: 03:44:35 08/30/05
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On August 28, 2005 at 23:36:52, kaqs.1662@bumpymail.com wrote: >I remember hearing a story about a programmer who did a blackjack (?) program on >an old drum memory computer. He must have pulled every trick in the book and a >few new ones due to the physical hardware. I think in one case, he used a >memory counter that just happened to turn into the right value at just the right >time for the program to execute right over the data. > >Later when the program needed to be modified, they never could figure out how it >worked. And that's with the original source. > That sounds like "The story of Mel" - see http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
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