AHH, TECHNOLOGY!

[Tony Barry]

Linkers

This sounds like an urban myth but that the thought that you could leave
something learning on a keyboard and bring down an economy is worrying.
Nearet I've come to it is continually getting phone calls from a mobile
phone in a handbag which kept getting bumped.

Tony

>From Net News  16 October 1998

AHH, TECHNOLOGY!
A mystery plunge on July 23 in the value of French  bond futures was
precipitated by a wave of 145 separate sell orders out of London, which
sent the
price into freefall. Investigators have now found the reasons - a  Salomon
Brothers trader who leant on his keyboard, unknowingly triggering the "Instant
Sell" button.

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