>>>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).
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>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.

I wouldn't count other all-nighters, as there are always a few that crop up accidentally, or intentionally, like our prom night or several new year nights, or some weddings... you ain't done nothing if you don't see the sunshine in the end.