🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2018-07-19 06:48, Charles Richmond wrote:
> 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> .

I don't think I ever had any issues or fallouts with MRC, but enjoyed 
talking to him a lot, and yes I also miss him sorely from time to time.

   Johnny

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