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Article #4629Anecdotes
From: e... Elf Sternberg
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 1990 19:53
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 1990 19:53
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Personally, my favorite notes (oh, this is my first usenet
posting, ever) was done by a hacker friend on and PDP 11/34 and a pair of
VT100's with remote power supplies. It was installed in a high school,
and sometime in the late evening when some poor fifteen year old kid was
grunging away at some assigned code, the terminal to his left came on
(you remember VT100's and that obnoxious >BEEP<) and said, in letters two
row high:
THERE IS NO GOD
A few second later, the terminal to his right came to life, and replied:
OH YEAH? THEN WHO PLUGGED US IN?
They both shut down a few seconds later.
On the subject of AmigaDOS 1.3, in the Library and Devices manual it
defines the following:
16-inch Rotary Debugger: A highly effective tool for locating
problems in computer software. Available for delivery in most major
metropolitan areas. Anchovies contribute to poor coding style.
It also defines :-) as "A Standard Smiley."
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