>>>>Turbo button still working - but cannot be employed 30% of each week - stamina for allnighters evaporated.
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>>>I think we're born with a finite number of allnighters available to us. I used 95% of mine in the 80's.
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>>Ouuhh yeah, the 80ies - was burning the candle on more than 2 sides back then sometimes...
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>Now after 33 years by the keyboard, I can say I pulled only three allnighters. First one in 1987, defragmenting the VAX (by backup-format-restore and the 2nd tape wouldn't load... until 05:45 when I just loaded it instead of the first); second in 1995, when I was writing the fast-as-hell incremental search in grid-like window in FPD2.6; third one was this year, some migration of data from one database to another - nothing too complicated, just looooong and had to be done on a friday night).

Didn't specify the all-nighters were programming related. For those, only 2. restoring a customers database after the boss wiped it accidentally and finishing a project that was handed to me late and had the deadline pushed up to a ridiculous date.