You Break It, You ... Run Away and Hope Somebody Else Fixes It
The Register, Monday, April 1st, 2024
Enthusiastic young tech decided to simplify the mainframe, with unexpected results
WHO, ME? Well hello again, dear reader, and welcome once more to Who, Me? - in which Register readers unburden themselves with confessions of tech mistakes long past. It's very cathartic, you know.
Joining us for this week's catharting is a reader we'll Regomize as "Dave," who recounted a tale dating back to the late 1960s when he was but a spring chicken in the prime of his youth and had a gig as a student assistant in the university's computer room. Indeed he had his very own key to the inner sanctum and was trusted with unsupervised access. Ah, the possibilities!