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Article #625372Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:02
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On 2018-07-30, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > On Monday, July 30, 2018 at 3:26:56 PM UTC-6, Peter Flass wrote: >> Rich Alderson <ne...@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote: > >> > Gibson in an interview I remember from the 80s said he misunderstood what the >> > company was doing, and thought that the name would become a generic like >> > "kleenex" or "xerox". > >> Or ex-lax. > > Come to think of it, that is actually an old joke... > > the computer in the Hepburn-Tracy movie "Desk Set" was called EMERAC... no, > that's not quite what I was looking for... > > Ah, yes, I got it confused with the computer EPICAC from the works of Kurt > Vonnegut. Ipecac being a natural laxative. > > John Savard One thing that amuses me, in the TV ads here for a laxitive, it seems that a main constituant is senna, thousands of years old. -- Ma...@ireland.com Will Rant For Food
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