Peter P. Levin

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From: jo... Douglas W. Jones201H MLH31...
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 14:28

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Once long ago, in 1973 to be exact, some grad students at Illinois,
including my friend Scott Davidson, found an advertisement for a
crackpot book named, as far as I recall, Psychic Data Processing.
They couldn't resist getting a copy, but none of them wanted it
addressed to themselves.  They ended up ordering it in the name of
one Peter P. Levin, at his office address in the U of Illinois
Digital Computer Laboratory.  The office address given was the
room that held one of the PDP-11 computers.

So what other reasonable names for people are as homophonic with the
name of some computer as the pair <Peter P. Levin, PDP-11> ?

					Doug Jones
					jo...@herky.cs.uiowa.edu

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