Wonder if Douglas Adams got his idea for the beverage maker freezing up the spaceship because Arthur Dent wanted a perfect cup of tea from this episode
Late 1970s. All the Sysops contributed to the tea fund for tea, sugar, milk. One guy wrote a program to manage it. Punched up the cards, read it in, ran it, our entire ATM estate shut down. The tea fund job had grabbed all the system resources. Good times.