Back in the early ‘70s, I worked at a computer network that had remote clients up and doen the Eastern seabboard, from Maine to D.C. They used a circular buffer

Back in the early ‘70s, I worked at a computer network that had remote clients up and doen the Eastern seabboard, from Maine to D.C. They used a circular buffer for output from client submitted jobs. One day the buffer lapped itself. Panic ensued.