"Three of us were hired into a 'Being John Malkovich' style situation where we were added to a team that was too busy to explain to us what to do and they also didn't have space for us on their floor of the office."
"There wasn't proper cooling for the Tandem, so they had the window in the data room slightly ajar with one of those fat crinkly air ducts like you have on a portable air conditioner going from the Tandem out the window."
"We hatched a plan. My colleague distracted the backup guy and I snuck into the data room, pulled the air hose inside, shut the window and snuck out."
"For a few blissful days we were quite snug in our little room, seeing as we had managed to create a warm environment for ourselves."
In the 1990s, a reader named Rob began working as a Sybase developer in London. He and two colleagues were placed on a new floor without guidance or heating. The cold was exacerbated by a Tandem mainframe in a data room, which had a makeshift cooling system. After observing the situation, Rob and a colleague devised a plan to sneak into the data room, pull the warm air hose inside, and close the window, resulting in a few days of warmth.
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