The other funny story about this machine is pretty much the flip side: Shop practices dictated that when you scheduled debugging time, you couldn't be bumped o

The other funny story about this machine is pretty much the flip side: Shop practices dictated that when you scheduled debugging time, you couldn't be bumped off as long as your program was still running. This led some clever fellow to write a deliberate loop that kept his program "running" -- panel lights a-flashing -- while he fashioned a patch for the most recently noticed bug, which he could then dial in to the memory in-flight without losing his place in line. When his ruse was discovered, he was chided for wasting lab resources, to which his response was: "Wasting resources? Nonsense! I used the optimising assembler!"