When I started working on mainframes at a big financial company there were jokes about the 'tape monkeys' which loaded tapes when we requested old datasets. We

When I started working on mainframes at a big financial company there were jokes about the 'tape monkeys' which loaded tapes when we requested old datasets. We laughed and dismissed that, surely everything was mechanised. It was only after a year or so that I was cleared to visit the data centre and discovered that the mechanical tape silos had failed years ago. Every tape had to be located and loaded by hand. I felt guilty about all those datasets I had ordered on whim... and was surprised that the DC guys didn't have a 'Hit List' of progammers.