Gregory's Server@ct_bergstrom
This is slightly reminiscent of an old computer tale, which actually may even have happened in 1960s, when I heard it:
Researchers were writing Fortran codes for scientific calculations. Some colleagues did not believe their results, so they added code that printed at the bottom of each page of output:
"These results checked by IBM 7090" (or maybe S/360).
After that, no arguments.🙂
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@JohnMashey @ct_bergstrom
In the 90s, personnal computers became pretty common and started to be used by small accounting firms. But there was a problem: accountants didn't trust that the computer could instantly calculated everything so they would double check and triple check whatever the computer did.
So accounting companies added progress bars and sleep statements to make everything take several minutes. It fixed the Chair/Keyboard interface problem