[John Rogers]

Okay for all you young'uns, here is a good one. Back about 1987 or so there was a computer virus named the "key pressed" virus that would flood the keyboard buffer so fast that those old MS-DOS applications would go bonkers with key strokes all over the screen and lots of beeping.

Well we got a call from a remote site that they had the "key pressed" virus and sure enough we could hear the computer beeping over the phone.... So my partener in crime, Keith and I drove over to see what was happening and brought out box of spare parts and such just in case. Sure enough the computer's screen was going crazy with ASCII characters going everywhere.

Keith picked up the keyboard and mouse to move them out of the way so we could get to the power strip and coffee ran out the left end of the keyboard...... When we asked what happened, the secretary said " well I did spill some coffee on the keyboard, BUT I wiped off all I could see....."!

We hooked up a new keyboard, ctrl - alt - del and then all was well.