The next evening I started the conversion program again, only this time I started talking to Ernie. I pleaded, I reminded him of our long friendship, I told him he could no longer stay here; he needed to move on. After an hour, the tape containing the first half of the conversion data stopped. There was an eerie stillness. I demanded that Ernie let the conversion continue. I yelled. And the tape started moving again!
I spent the next several hours arguing and screaming at a ghost while the conversion continued in fits and starts -- and then, miraculously, completed successfully. I was delirious with joy. I began to think about moonlighting as an exorcist.
Mysterious glitches continued to appear for the next few days while we tested and implemented the new system. But when I yelled at Ernie, they smoothed out. By the end of the week, we were up and running. Soon afterward, we sold the Honeywell for scrap and electric parts.
And with it went Ernie; apparently there was nothing left to keep him around. Ernie had moved on to wherever spirits go when it's their time. Although, to this day, I still look over my shoulder when I pass the computer room door.
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