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Story: Laptop-shooting tops computer mishaps poll

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In the late eighties Psions main mini computer was effectively buzzed to death by an enormous vibrator!

The builders on the adjacent site were experimenting with different techniques of pile driving. One of these involved the use of giant vibrators placed on top of the piles. Although apparently a very quick and effective way of driving the piles into the ground it also shook the Psion development building to the foundations. This all proved a bit too much for the main development mini computer which suffered the computer equivalent of a cardiac arrest. It took the DEC engineers the best part of a day to bring it back from the dead.

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