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In article <13...@scorn.sco.COM> dav...@sco.COM (David Vangerov) writes:
-1) way back when, when Doonesbury was just getting started, Trudeau
-   had a little series with Mark learning how to program a PDP 11/70
-   (at least i think it was the 11/70) for a summer job. he didn't
-   have such a good time with it. if anyone has the book "Still a Few 
-   Bugs in the System" they can confirm this for us all... i don't think 
-   the computer was running Unix, much too early for that.

Uh, UNIX first booted in 1969 and was ported to the PDP-11 around 1972.
The PDP 11/70 didn't hit the streets until 1975.
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In article <13...@scorn.sco.COM>, dav...@sco.COM (David Vangerov) writes:
> 2) Rick Cook wrote a fantasy novel called "Wizard's Bane" that features
>    such fun things as Emacs, C, Unix. it mentions *sizeof* specifically
>    (put in boldface). later on in the book we get R^2D^2, find, a passwd
>    cracker, some stuff that looks like C, or maybe Lisp, Emac(s), grep,
>    $ prompt, cd, slash, backslash, and other stuff common in Unix. the
>    story centers around a guy who is magically transported into another
>    world where magic reins supreme, and there is no technology. he has
>    nickname of Wiz, which is why he was called into the other world to
>    help fight evil magic. eventually he invents a magic compiler to help
>    in this. very intersting novel.

A sequel has been released by Rick Cook.  It is "The Wizardy Compiled".
I liked the bit when he ran his maigc "program"; it created a demon.  It
is much fun.
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> > 1) Way back when, when Doonesbury was just getting started, Trudeau
> >    had a little series with Mark learning how to program a PDP 11/70
> >    (at least I think it was the 11/70) for a summer job.  He didn't
> >    have such a good time with it.  If anyone has the book "Still a Few 
> >    Bugs in the System" they can confirm this for us all...

> The PDP 11/70 didn't hit the streets until 1975.

The >> article is quite right, except that it wasn't (called) programming,
it wasn't an 11/70, and it wasn't "Still a Few Bugs in the System".

The series (one week's worth of Doonesbury, I think) actually appears at
the start of the book "Call Me When You Find America".  My copy is part
of a boxed set which also includes "Still a Few...", which may account
for the error.  The copyright dates shown are 1971-73, by the way.

The computer is actually a "PDP-112".  Little did Trudeau know that DEC
would give up on the PDP name scheme before the numbers got that high!

Finally, Mark's job title is actually "computer operator"... though he
does produce a program (only to press the wrong button and delete it),
so this presumably only shows that Trudeau didn't know the difference.

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SoftQuad Inc., Toronto		 to come up with a data encryption standard
utzoo!sq!msb, m...@sq.com	 and they came up with...?"  "EBCDIC!"

This article is in the public domain.

Mark Brader notes:

The computer is actually a "PDP-112".  Little did Trudeau know that DEC
would give up on the PDP name scheme before the numbers got that high!

(In Doonesbury, 1971-3).

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In Maynard, I once saw a poster in the PDP-6 area advertising the "PDP-69".















It showed an airline stewardess.
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Add to the list of fun books "The Naked Computer" by Joe Cottonwood (pseud. of
Paul Fort (sp?))  which is about a systems programmer circa 197x  and his
(fantastic) operating system.  Published in San Francisco by a small press;
if anyone wants more info e-mail me and i'll look it up.

When I was 10 or 13 or so, there was a book in the local library
about a Robin Hood-type of programmer for a small town courthouse
who used his computer knowledge to create several fake identities;
he then faked his death, and took his van-full-of-computer-and
telecommunications-equipment off to the woods to live in a cabin.

This was in the late 70s/early 80s .  Anybody remember the name of the book?
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Yep, they called it "The Programmer" I believe.  funny book, mainly
bacause of the way computer systems were portrayed. Take a look at it!

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How about _The_Adolescence_Of_P1_, by Thomas Ryan (?), which came out in
the late 70's.  Fun romp with an AI program.

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In article <1990Feb1.0...@oracle.com> nh...@dvlseq.oracle.com (Nate Hess) writes:
>How about _The_Adolescence_Of_P1_, by Thomas Ryan (?), which came out in
>the late 70's.  Fun romp with an AI program.
>

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