Ok, now this tale comes from a lecture I attended at Swansea University in about 1975. Truth is, I don't know if it was made up by the lecturer, whose name I forget, or whether it's a fact. Googling comes up with nothing. Anyhow, here it is. The subject was "How much does an error cost to fix?". The lecturer wrote a single line of FORTRAN code on the board: DO 10 I = 1,3 "Now when the programmer took this down to be punch-carded onto Hollerith cards the typist made a mistake. They entered: DO 10 I = 1.3 How much to fix the change from a full-stop to a comma?" A long discussion followed - nothing if the programmer had spotted the mistake by checking the card immediately, more if it was found during testing and finally a lot if the project had already been delivered. He gave us the answer: "$50,000,000. It was in the aerial alignment code of NASA's Pioneer spacecraft. It should loop 3 times to line " 10 CONTINUE " in an a...
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Couldn't be arsed to rig up the dialup system again (after doing it earlier in the year thanks to E7's "upgrading"), so went along with the eezedsl site.
Have to say it did get me back online pretty quick but I'm not convinced it's the best priced package about.
Might stick it for the year and then revamp the whole telephony thing.
Have completed the online E7 refund request - will be very interesting to see how much of my owed £130 turns up (or when). Suppose I'll have to contact my credit card co. and try and claim that way if nothings happens within the month.