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Wipe out
If any of you think that your predecessors didn’t have fun at work, Nigel Kitcher recalls his days working for the British Internal Combustion Engine Research Institute.
‘We had a mini-computer,’ he says. ‘The hard drive format command was called “WIPE” and took the the volume name as the parameter, so my boss decided that we should call the hard drive partition “BUM”.’
You don’t get that on MySpace.
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