INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
It the early 1970s, and pilot fish works for a company that relies on heavy computation
This is accomplished via a large terminal that remotely feeds a mainframe elsewhere
Typical turnaround time is about three hours, so urgent projects can be nerve-wracking.This one manager has an urgent project — and a bit
Maybe no one ever told him that &software is the part you cuss at; hardware is the part you kick,& but when his job comes back with a minor
but fatal error for the second time in one day, he kicks the poor dumb terminal.The terminal promptly goes down, and technical support is
duly summoned.The support guy, accompanied by the manager with the guilty foot, takes a look and makes an astute observation: &It looks as
if this terminal got kicked.& The manager manages to look puzzled, then declares that he can&t imagine how that could have happened.
