🚀 go-pugleaf

On 7/18/2018 2:27 PM, Stephen M. Jones wrote:
> The past couple of weeks I've been thinking about MRC a lot.  He was a
> fixture on alt.sys.pdp10 and I'm sure people thought of him as a pretty
> difficult person.  I knew him in person and I know the MRC face to face was
> different than what you might come across on alt.sys.pdp10.  I recently came
> across a memo authored by BAH regarding 3M and the shortage of DECTAPES,
> et cetera and I also came across boxes carefully arranged by MRC from
> Stanford that had not been opened until now.
> 
> MRC was a private person and if he was a friend you could get to him.
> For instance, he once gave me a DTMF code that would bypass his anti-
> telemarketer setup on his phone when I need to all him on Bainbridge.  But
> MRC could also turn on you and if he thought you had nothing to say, he'd
> write an SMTP response that you'd get that would say something like:
> 
> 451: STOP TALKING ABOUT IT ALREADY
> 
> I think I still have that response somewhere.
> 

ISTM that MRC did *not* "suffer fools lightly"... nor should he have 
done that IMO.  If you asked a question on <alt.sys.pdp10> ... a 
question that showed the asker had *not* worked much on his problem ... 
MRC would deride you and *not* offer any answers (other than to suggest 
you go away).  If a person's question indicated that the asker had done 
a lot of work on the problem, MRC was willing to offer help.

MRC was *not* a baby sitter ... if you understood that, you'd get along 
fine with him.  IMHO

I miss his presence on <alt.sys.pdp10> .

-- 
numerist at aquaporin4 dot com