Part 132 (2/2)

4,576 Computational Errors

Eileen's attention ie

The Coures were normally '0' or '1' a week

Now, 5,000 in one day?

She had the computer sort the 4,576 CE's into the serial number distribution The Service Departineering and production If so - once a few hundred thousand copies hit the field - the error would show up by the number of calls But CE's were normally operator error Not the computer's

There was no correlation to serial nuh Version 30 and 31 were affected as were the current versions By all reports, Lotus 1-2-3 could no longer add, subtract, divide, multiply or compute accurately Mass computa- tional errors The bell curve across serial nuh to obviate the need for a statistical analysis This was clearly not an engineering design error Nor was it a production error, or a run of bad disks Soed

Scarsdale, New York

On the 6:12 to Scarsdale, Tyrone and Scott joined for a beer

The conversation was not to be repeated

”ECCO, CERT, the whole shooting h to be heard over the ru to NSA control NIST is out They all work for the Fort now

Depart me?” Scott tried to maintain control

”It'll be official toht The NSA has won again”

”What do youto disency rivalry ”It seeet is secret, their purpose is secret, and now they have every computer security concern at their beck and call

Orders of the President”

”Aren't they the best suited for the job, though”

”Technically, maybe Politically, no way!” Tyrone said adamant- ly ”I think the Bureau could e”

Scott looked curiously at Tyrone

”They wrote the rules”

Scarsdale, New York

Speedo's Pizza was late, so Scott got the two 9the embarrassed delivery boy 10 for his efforts Not his fault that his company makes absurd promises and contributes to the accident rate

As 9:00 PM approached, Scott's stomach knotted up He wasn't quite sure what he would find when he dialed the Canadian number