Bruce Toback reminds us:

> And as long as it's been declared International Wirt Week, I'll remind
> everyone about one of Wirt's famously detailed posts, in this case
> probably the best story about real-world engineering I've ever read. It's
> at <http://www.optc.com/Webbot/Thread1735.html>.

In that article, Wirt writ:

> ...ultimately, I wound up sleeping on the floor next to the
> computer system for three weeks in order to get enough data
> to deduce what the problem was.

*NOW* I understand Wirt's affinity for Charles Proteus Steinmetz!
They must've been blood brothers!

Hey, wait a minute:  I've never seen them *together* ! ;)

--Glenn