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2 total messages Started by e... Elf Sternberg Sun, 23 Sep 1990 19:53

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Author: e... Elf Sternberg
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."

Re: Anecdotes

#4630

Author: bs... nickel
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 1990 16:24

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In article <kRVyP...@halcyon.wa.com> e...@halcyon.wa.com (Elf Sternberg) writes:

[...]
   (you remember VT100's and that obnoxious >BEEP<) and said, in letters two 
   row high:

	   THERE IS NO GOD

Which reminds me to this (typescript):

UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 i386
w104zrz
Copyright (c) 1987 AT&T
All Rights Reserved
No mail.
woks4000   ttyp0        Sep 24 17:38
nickel     ttyp1        Sep 24 18:28
w104zrz: /usr2/nickel) rm god
rm: god non-existent
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
w104zrz: /usr2/nickel) logout
Connection closed.
--
-----------------
Juergen Nickelsen
nic...@w104zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de
nick...@mikroperipherik.e-technik.tu-berlin.dbp.de

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