Goodbye, Mr Chips Share Copy On Call There are few things worse than when someone nicks your chips, be they of the potato or silicon variety as our latest delve into the annals of On Call reveals. "Ben", as the Regomiser has dubbed today's contributor, was tasked with supporting a network consisting of a pair of decade old HP1000 minicomputers. The devices ran the Real Time Executive (RTE) operating system (RTE6, according to Ben) and the software used by his company was written in Fortran. The application itself was to analyse oil wells and a Versatec plotter was used to spit out a curve showing data versus depth. Ben told us he later wrote an extension to locate areas where water was being extracted instead of oil; he hoped to call it "Well Analysis - New Knowledge" but his nerve failed and the potential for acronym naughtiness was sadly lost to time.