Title    : Blow Out
Original : ?
Group    : ?
Author   : Bill Laubenheimer
Intro    : 
Song     : 

     Like to tell you the story today about my cpu,
     It does alot of different things that no one else can
        do,
     Assembin' compilin' and all sorts of filin',
     (But the) one main thing that results is a blow out
        every time,

     Chorus:

     Blow out, a blow out, the Vax had another blow out
     Blow out, a blow out, doin' a change mode.
     Blow out, a blow out, the Vax had another blow out
     Blow out, a blow out, was it due to the heavy load.

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     Late one night in the middle of the term while George
        soundly slept.
     A cpu dropped a bit and promptly crashed the net.
     A-machine wheezed,b belched, and fu's let out a shout,
     And just as you would expect, the Vax had another blow
        out!

     (Chorus)

     The freshman panicked, the sophomores screemed, the
        juniors quietly wept.
     "What are we to do after the super users have left?"
     The seniors said "Have no fear and get the phone book
        out,
     We'll call George because, the Vax had another blow
        out."

     (Chorus)

     They called George and woke him up and got him out of
        bed.
     And when he heard their voices, he knew the Vax was
        dead.
     "What is running that made the Vax bomb?
     Did those stupid users finally run out of ROM?"
     (They said) "The line has formed down the hall cause
        many programs are due
     There is 263, 362, 363, 466, 467, 468, 695b, just to
        name a few.
     We tried to fix it on our own, so we got the intructions
        out.
     And heres what it says to do when the Vax has had a blow
        out."

     (Chorus)

     The manual from DEC was to the point and very clear,
     (it said) "No winding no batterys just kick it right
        here".
     Well George, we tried it but it still refuses to run,
     What are we supposed to do to get our assignments done?
     (He said), "Dump the core and boot it once more, and
        tell the users not to pout
     The only thing that happened is, the Vax had another
        blow out"

     (Chorus)

     (So they) dumped the core and booted it once more and
        the disks began to spin,
     Everyone was cheering because they knew it'd run again.
     They thanked George politely because they had no doubts,
     The Vax had just recovered from one of many blow outs.

     (Chorus)

     Now you've heard the story today about our cpu,
     It did alot of different things that no one else could
        do.
     We're really gonna miss it when the when the memory
        finally dies,
     but we'll know it'll have a grand blow out in the sky.

     (Chorus)


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   guy that ran the computer at pur-ee.