{"id":11132,"date":"2016-02-04T08:34:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T16:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=11132"},"modified":"2016-02-05T20:11:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T04:11:20","slug":"ah-memories-sysabend-dump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=11132","title":{"rendered":"Ah, Memories (Sysabend Dump)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4956\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpiccompusaur.jpg\" alt=\"userpic=compusaur\" width=\"97\" height=\"94\" \/>The documents I&#8217;m currently reviewing brought this poem to mind, which was published in <em>Datamation<\/em> in their 1975 April Fools issue:<\/p>\n<p>On either side the printer lie<br \/>\nFat stacks of paper six feet high<br \/>\nThat stun the mind and blur the eye.<br \/>\nAnd lo! Still more comes streaming by.<br \/>\nA fresh <span style=\"font-family: Letter Gothic;\">SYSABEND<\/span> dump.<\/p>\n<p>Ye printer clacketh merrily.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Letter Gothic;\">COMPLETION CODE IS 043<\/span><br \/>\nAlack! What can the matter be<br \/>\nThat made <span style=\"font-family: Letter Gothic;\">SYSABEND<\/span> dump.<\/p>\n<p>My TCAM hath no MCP?<br \/>\nMy data cannot OPENed be?<br \/>\nConsult my neighborhood SE?<br \/>\nThe devil take thy dam and thee,<br \/>\nThou vile <span style=\"font-family: Letter Gothic;\">SYSABEND<\/span> dump.<\/p>\n<p>Assemble modules on the fly<br \/>\nAnd link for yet another try.<br \/>\nWith <span style=\"font-family: Letter Gothic;\">SUPERZAP<\/span> a patch apply<br \/>\nThis time: <i>THOU SHALT NOT DUMP!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>\u22c5\u22c5\u22c5<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On either side the printer lie<br \/>\nFat stacks of paper twelve feet high<br \/>\nThat blow the mind and blast the eye.<br \/>\nGadzooks! How shrill yon varlet&#8217;s cry<br \/>\nAs sixteen megabytes go by<br \/>\nIn yet another dump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The documents I&#8217;m currently reviewing brought this poem to mind, which was published in Datamation in their 1975 April Fools issue: On either side the printer lie Fat stacks of paper six feet high That stun the mind and blur the eye. And lo! Still more comes streaming by. A fresh SYSABEND dump. Ye printer <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=11132\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364],"tags":[72,129,63],"class_list":["post-11132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-compusaur","tag-memes-poetry","tag-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11136,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11132\/revisions\/11136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}