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Some similar bugs, the later one looks like an urban legend:

"Printer won't print on Tuesdays" :http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2009/08/15/bohrbugs-openoffice-org-w...

"A member of the famous Black Team manages to create a sequence of operations that topples over the tape drive": http://www.penzba.co.uk/GreybeardStories/TheBlackTeam.html

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The Black Team link inside your link is broken, http://www.t3y.com/tangledwebs/07/tw0706.html is blocking all robots so no Web Archive copy either. I think this is a copy of it: http://www.t3.org/tangledwebs/07/tw0706.html

    > The Black Team link inside
    > your link is broken ...

Fixed - thank you.

I can't find it now, but one of my favourites was the 'virus' that caused Word to keep typing phrases about Mozart, Bach, and nuclear weapons in Iran. Turned out to be a voice activation program running in the background, next to a radio playing Classic FM.

> "A member of the famous Black Team manages to create a sequence of operations that topples over the tape drive": http://www.penzba.co.uk/GreybeardStories/TheBlackTeam.html

The "in front of the press" bit is almost certainly an urban legend, but the concept did happen: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html

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