HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ardai@zax.eda.teradyne.com (Michael Ardai)
Subject: Re: ADVENT
Organization: Teradyne, Inc. Boston MA
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:04:15 GMT

In article <qP0kTB2w165w@lost.cojones.com> sysadmin@lost.cojones.com ('Bart' Prentice) writes:
>xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) writes:
>
>> Also, are there any PDP-1s left in the world? Does anyone know?
>
>The last PDP-1, PDP-1 Kenobi, was derezzed by Dark Vadic's bytesaber.

Actually, there are a few over at he computer museum in Boston.  As far as 
I know, they are currently in storage, but I played Space War (the true
version) on the one they had on display a few years back.  Yes, they did
fire up the '1 for some special event, probably 'computer games' day...
Lots of fun trying to find the bad bit in the accumulator that was preventing
the paper tape reader from running...

They also have a PDP 1 front panel in their 'People and Computers - 
Milestones of the Revolution' exhibit.

/mike
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From: xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Wanted: Altair 800 or Imsai 8080 and Modem
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 21:09:00 EST
Organization: Odd Parity Hacker's Group

[ME: acoustic coupler wanted]
> Sure I have one at home that can do 100/300/450. Talk about blazing
> power!

450?

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From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Strange AT&T answering machine behavior
Date: 9 Nov 1992 00:51:52 GMT
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
NNTP-Posting-Host: skybridge.scl.cwru.edu

Others said
# I have one of the new AT&T
# all-digital answering machines. 
{}
# conclude that this thing had spoken the words "Like a pig".

I relayed this story to a friend. His reply was that sounded like a
call-screening feature, and that with the people that call him, it
would likely fuse from overwork.....

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
From: rivero@mdcbbs.com
Date: 11 Nov 92 12:33:20 GMT
Organization: EDS Unigraphics, Cypress CA
Nntp-Posting-User: crane

In article <1992Nov8.103101.166@gems.vcu.edu>, hleaves@gems.vcu.edu writes:
> I was reading an article in an "anarchist" magazine (I can't remember which
> one) that was talking about ATM (teller machine) "jackpotting". "Jackpotting"
> an ATM machine involves cutting the data lines to the machine and splicing in
> your personal computer. When you put an ATM card in the machine your computer
> intercepts the ATM's account inquiry messages. It then returns, of course, an
> infinite balance on the account, along with other appropriate information
> allowing you to withdraw as much money as you can from the machine. The article
> said someone had succesfully done this for a take of several thousand dollars.
> The article did not give any technical details about the procedure. My question
> is: Is this really possible or is this article just a figment of someones
> overactive imagination? Has anyone else heard of this being done? Would anyone
> care to speculate on how they pulled it off?
> 


  Sounds like Urban Legend stuff to me. Not only are the data lines difficult
to get to (even if you can tell which wire they are), there is the problem of
encrypted data going back and forth. Part of the data stream exists slely to
verify that the link has not been interuppted. If any portion of the system
acts strangly, the ATM will shut it's itty bitty doors, and those ATMs
equipped with a camera behind the dark glass plate will take a photograph 
of the person standing in front.


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|  Michael Rivero rivero@mdcbbs.com  "Middle-aged Mutant Ninja Animator" |
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com (Richard Todd)
Subject: Re: command abbreviation
Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 01:37:41 GMT

lowen@lorc.UUCP (Lamar Owen) writes:
>And the original TRS-80 had a back arrow in place of the _.  In fact, it had
>a full set of arrows, replaced the [\]_ group.  [ was an up arrow, and, of 

Actually, not quite.  Some of the earliest TRS-80s (e.g. mine, bought in 
December 1977) had a char. generator with the [\]_ instead of the arrows.
Made the Basic exponentiation operator look not so pretty (i.e. instead of the
up-arrow you saw '['), but it was *awfully* nice when it became feasible to
run Small-C on the TRS-80.....
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"If your terminal is on fire, unplug it."  -- from an official USGS memo.
From: deand@bmerh404.BNR.CA (Dean Dillabough)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Ohmigod...
Date: 5 Nov 92 22:31:05 GMT
Reply-To: deand@bmerh404.BNR.CA (Dean Dillabough)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.

In article <1d2oktINN40f@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM>,
smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes:
|>In article <tlukka.720626214@snakemail.hut.fi>, tlukka@lk-hp-1.hut.fi
(Tuomas J. Lukka) writes:
|>> >             He
|>> >used to get all sorts of stares and 'My God! You have a VaxStation!'
|>> >exclamations. Lots of fun, breaks the ice at parties :-).
|>> 
|>> Pray tell us, WHAT kind of parties do you go to, if a VaxStation name
|>> plate breaks the ice!!!??? ;-)
|>> 
|>> 	TJL
|>
|>I suppose that depends on where he's wearing it...
|>
|>Steve
|>

 Actually, it was one of my annual skating parties. These feature loud music,
 unbeleivable (sp?) drunkeness, killer chili, the occasional roman candle
 duel, and sometimes skating on the canal (a nice 5 mile long skating rink).
 If the computer attached to the VaxStation sticker is heavy enough and the
 ice thin enough, well you get the idea :-).


                Dean Dillabough (that's MR Station to you buddy!)


                   
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: mdw@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
Subject: Re: QUESTION: What was the 1st computer game?
Keywords: game
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:22:56 GMT

In article <BxF44y.9Kr@acsu.buffalo.edu> dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Cybard=) writes:
>What was the very first computer game?  When I say computer game, I mean a
>game that would not exist without the computer. (ex: ZORK, Adventure,
>Pac-Man, but not computer Tic-Tac-Toe or computer chess.)

Ah. That must have been "Plug-it-in-and-see-if-it-works". 

Came out just before Spacewar.

mdw

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Systems Programmer, Cornell Theory Center
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca (veenstra christopher)
Subject: Re: QUESTION: What was the 1st computer game?
Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 16:32:59 GMT
Keywords: game

>>
>>>In article <BxF44y.9Kr@acsu.buffalo.edu>, dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (The Cybard=) writes:
>>>|> What was the very first computer game?  When I say computer game, I mean a
>>>|> game that would not exist without the computer. (ex: ZORK, Adventure,
>>>|> Pac-Man, but not computer Tic-Tac-Toe or computer chess.)
>>>|> 

Okay, Spacewar is the unanimous winner of that one.  Here's a followup then,
what's the first computer adventure game?

Chris Veenstra
veen2976@mach1.wlu.ca
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: welch@sacral.cis.ohio-state.edu (Arun Welch)
Subject: Re: Where did 'ethernet' come from anyway  was: Re: Correct pronunciation of 'ethernet'
Originator: welch@sacral.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: OSU-LAIR
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 19:04:37 GMT


Others have already told where the name comes from, but I've got
another bit of folklore to add. On the door to my office is an
nth-generation copy of a memo from a Mr. R. Z. Bachrach, who I was told
was once a Xerox VP, to Boggs and Metcalf. It goes into great detail
telling them how ethernet just won't work and is generally a bad idea.
It's chock full of statements like "I have read with dismay your
presentation", "you have chosen a coined jargon utilizing discredited
scientific conceptual expression in which to frame your ideas.", and,
my favorite, "You should seriously study how the telephone companies
handle this problem." It's quite possibly the funniest memo I've ever
seen. If there's enough interest I'll type it in.

...arun
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Lisp Systems Programmer, Lab for AI Research, Ohio State University
welch@cis.ohio-state.edu


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: u734120@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (John Lamp)
Subject: command abbreviation
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 08:49:26 GMT

smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes:

>Oh dear. I remember that. I really wish I didn't, SINTRAN had some very
>'different' features.
>> 
>> "copy-file" had also the very interesting property that the order of
>> parameters was "copy-file <destination>,<source>" 

shades of the dreaded pip command of CP/M and DEC fame - this also was a
copy command which was pip <destination> <source>

Things like this make using more than one operating system at a time fun!!

Cheers
John

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: alange@rahul.net (Andrew Lange)
Subject: proliferation of alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb groups
Summary: Where do they come from?
Organization: a2i network
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 06:42:10 GMT

Just recently, I tried a "grep '\(\.[a-z][a-z]*\)\1\1' .newsrc", just for
fun, and this is what I got:

alt.american.automobile.breakdown.breakdown.breakdown!
alt.business.multi-level.scam.scam.scam!
alt.deutsche.bundesbahn.kotz.kotz.kotz!
alt.duke.basketball.sucks.sucks.sucks!
alt.ensign.wesley.die.die.die!328,332-334,336,347,351,363,410
alt.evil.joel-hall.hell.hell.hell!
alt.fan.chaki.chaki.chaki!
alt.fan.schwaben.heul.heul.heul!
alt.french.captain.borg.borg.borg!
alt.gorby.coup.coup.coup!
alt.gorby.gone.gone.gone!
alt.half.operating.system.delay.delay.delay!
alt.henry.qua.qua.qua!
alt.irc.corruption.log.log.log!
alt.lawyers.sue.sue.sue!
alt.lwaxana-troi.die.die.die: 1-73
alt.newsgroup.creators.dork.dork.dork!
alt.sadistic.dentists.drill.drill.drill!
alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork!
alt.tv.90120.sucks.sucks.sucks!
alt.swedishfool.test.test.test!
alt.hackers.cough.cough.cough: 1-8
alt.kodak.cd.bitch.bitch.bitch: 1-19

Does anyone know of the history of this prediliction for naming groups
alt.opt-adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb ?

Which is the first one you saw? Have you ever created one?

I can summarize and post, if you don't want to share you story with the
net.

Andy Lange
(alange@rahul.net)

.sig?  what's that?
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: sms@WLV.IIPO.GTEGSC.COM (Steven M. Schultz)
Subject: Re: Value of a PDP-11,VAX-11/750?
Organization: GTE Government Systems
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 07:42:33 GMT

In article <11NOV199215394004@rover.uchicago.edu> frank@rover.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>	23 vers 34 is a little less power, but not by much.

	Hmmm, the Q-bus systems tend to draw a _lot_ less power than just
	about any Unibus system as far as i've seen.  I can run both a
	11/73 and a uVax-II and not draw as much as the microwave oven
	in the house (hit the microwave and the lights in the house dim,
	run both confusers and the lights don't dim).

>	Were I in your position, I'd probably go scrounging around and try
>	to snarf up an RL02 drive and controller. You'll get 4 times the
>	storage for much less power.

	Or, find/get/procure/whatever an Emulex UC07 (or 08) and run SCSI
	drives - *lots* less power use there.

	Steven Schultz
	sms@wlv.iipo.gtegsc.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: gay@venice.sedd.trw.com (Lance Gay)
Subject: Re: Where did 'ethernet' come from anyway
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:13:36 GMT

In article <Bx88oq.GsL@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> kodak@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jason Balicki (KodaK)) writes:
>
>Ok, we've established the correct way to say ethernet: memumbleernet.
>
>My question is:  Where did the name come from in the first place?
>

In the article "Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer
Networks" by Robert M. Metcalfe and David R. Boggs of Xerox PARC (CACM,
July 1976) is the following paragraph:

    Ethernet is named for the historical luminiferous ether through which
    electromagnetic raadiations were once alleged to propagate.  Like an
    Aloha radio transmitter, an Ethernet transmitter broadcasts 
    completely-addressed transmitter synchronous bit sequences called
    packets onto the Ether and hopes that they are heard by the intended
    receivers.  The Ether is a logically passive medium for the 
    propagation of digital signals and can be constructed using any
    number of media including coaxial cables, twisted pairs, and optical
    fibers.

The "Aloha" mentioned above refers to the Aloha Network packet radio
system set up the by University of Hawaii.

Lance J. Gay                                 Internet: gay@venice.sedd.trw.com
TRW Systems Engineering & Development Div.   Phone: 310-764-3988
Carson, CA  90746
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc
From: alex@bilver.uucp (Alex Matulich)
Subject: Re: How is the Net financed and what does it cost?
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 03:41:10 GMT

>>Oh, ok, it's not THE greatest invention (that's the Salad Shooter[tm]) but
>>Top Ramen (or "Pot Nodle") runs at least in the top 5.  :)
>
>I think that you've forgotten the infamous "Ronco In-The-Egg-Scrambler",
>a clear #1 on most folks "greatest invention" lists.  How soon people
>forget.

First time I saw one of those things, I thought:  "My!  What a great way
to make deviled crab!"

Think about it.  Sorry that was sick, but that IS what I thought at the
time.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson)
Subject: Phone number delete (was: You know you've been hacking too long...)
Organization: Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sweden
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:07:31 GMT

In article <1D53TB2w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker) writes:
>RICHARD@ttt.kth.se writes:
>> The problem is that connection is often set up as soon as a uniq number is
>> entered, valid or invalid. If I type 777552 instead of 777551, how do I delet
>> that last digit?
>
>Good point, but don't you mean 7775552 instead of 7775551? If you were ot 
>enter the last digit wrong, I agree, theres nothing that can be done.

It should of course be possible to make telephones that store the number
being dialled in an internal memory, and don't actually dial it until
you press a special "dial" key. In that case, it would be possible even
to do real editing of the number before dialling. But I suppose that
such phones would be too hard to get used to for the computer
illiterate masses... :-/

>Oh, wait. You're in .se, sweden, right? Are telephone numbers only 6 
>digits there? If so, I apoligize.

Actually, Swedish phone numbers vary in length between 5 and 7 digits.
The trunk (area) code is two digits (08) for Stockholm, which is the
only area with 7-digit numbers, three digits for other cities (046 for
Lund), where 6-digit numbers are common, and four digits for rural
areas, where 5-digit numbers suffice (obviously, you'd want to have
more than 900000 possible numbers in a reasonably big city, since the
full "number space" never seems to be used up). 

The reason for this is that the old electro-mechanical switches
couldn't handle more than nine-digit numbers (area code + number).
This is of course changing with the new digital AXE switches (a
Swedish product that's among the world leaders in its category - quite
unusual for high tech equipment).

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,rec.arts.startrek.misc,rec.arts.startrek.tech
From: rogers@rosencrantz.osf.org (Andrew Rogers)
Subject: Re: FORTRAN food synthesizer program
Organization: HICAM/OSD
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:57:36 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.123108.28930@umbc3.umbc.edu> cs202144@umbc8.umbc.edu (cs202144) writes:
>>I wish I had C source code for this, but one thing I did was try to compile it
>as is in fortran on a DEC Unix Machine and a SGI Irix machine. On both it
>complained about an undefined dbl_ and I do not know fortran at all so beyond
>trying to run it through the compiler I am lost. Yes! I did edit out the
>message header and all that junk so that is not my problem.

OK, this is what I had to do to get it to compile:

>>       COMMON/MEATS/FOOD,DISH,PAN,FRYER,WAFFL

I had to comment out this line (place a C in column 1).  It doesn't really
do anything, and caused a "COMMON data initialized outside BLOCK DATA
subprogram" error.  (If you don't already know what that means, you don't
*want* to know.  Trust me.)

>>       IOUT=5

I changed 5 to 6 here.  5 used to be the logical unit of card readers (!) and
6 line printers; nowadays they seem to refer to stdin and stdout.

>>       BAKED=DBL(5.)
>>       RECIP=DBLE(71.)/DBLE(113.)

I think the first line was supposed to use "DBLE", not "DBL".  "DBLE" was
like a (double) cast in C - a pseudo-function to convert a floating-point
constant to a double-precsision value.  You could probably blow these
function calls away completely in modern FORTRAN, expressing these constants
as 5.0D0, etc.

AWR
old fart at play
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Don't you hate it when...
From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
Date: 7 Nov 92 06:54:36 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Wolery

aki@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us writes:
> > don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
> > >BTW: _Why_ does IRIX's man insist on trying to do bolding by overstriking 
> > >characters three times on a VT100?  Sheesh!
> 
> Hey, overstriking is still current. It's just five years that
> I saw a printer terminal being sold for $5.  There may still be
> some out there... working!  I love traditions.  I submit that
> there will be no attempts at removing overstiking... ever.
> Besides, who cares for fancy CRT consoles and _laser_ printers
> anyway?

Probably not.  But note <a> that the stupid thing had been told that it had 
a VT100 on the end (actually a vt320, but I tried with vt100 as well to make 
sure it wasn't just a funny for non-vt100s), and therefore damn well knew it
it had a scope on the end, and <b> when it came to underline it did it right
and used SGR sequences, so it damn well knows about SGR as well. 

I don't like the overstriking one bit.  At 2400bps it's quite slow, and
most man pages _really_ overdo the highlighting.

Worse, the most noticable single pause was while it printed "Silicon
Graphics" in the middle of the header line..... <sigh>

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.folklore.urban
From: magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson)
Subject: Re: leave alt.folklore.computers alone, rmgroup comp.society.folklore
Organization: Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Sweden
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 13:49:52 GMT

In article <1992Nov7.021144.18842@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr) writes:
>Head for the hills, Bengt.  You've just committed the cardinal sin...
>suggesting the appropriation of alt.folklore.urban for illegal porpoises. 

Illegal porpoises??? What's next - delinquent dolphins? :-)

Magnus
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
Subject: Re: command abbreviation
Organization: Generic American College Kids (G.A.C.K.)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:33:54 GMT
Reply-To: slb22@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Seth L. Blumberg)
X-Posted-From: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <foo> wingo@apple.com (Tony Wingo) writes:
>In article <bar>, sandee@Think.COM (Daan Sandee) wrote:
>>In article <baz>, jsr@dexter.mi.org (Jay S. Rouman) writes:
>>>
>>> I agree that the PIP syntax seems backwards, but in all fairness, you
>>> left out the equals sign.  It's "PIP destination = source".  It really
>>> isn't much stranger than "x = 1".
>>
>>Actually, even longer ago, it was
>>  pip dest <-  source
>>where the left arrow was a valid character on KSR38s and other wild machines.
>
>Yeah, back when I was programming on a PDP-10 in the early 70's, about two
>thirds of our teletypes (ASR33's mostly) had the back-arrow as the shift-O
>character. PIP was not the only thing that used it: I saw at least one
>ALGOL variant that used it for assignment.

So, on those ASR-33's that *didn't* have the mutant shift-O, you would type
	pip dest _ source
?!?

	Seth "the Lesser"

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From: xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP (Daniel Drucker)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Lotsa levels of attribution! (WAS: Re: Help with XMS mai
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 92 15:24:49 EST
Organization: Odd Parity Hacker's Group

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs) writes:

> In article <k46NTB6w165w@mertwig.UUCP> xyzzy@mertwig.UUCP
> (Daniel Drucker) writes:
> 
> >Does anyone know of a place where I can get a new refrigerator simulator?
> 
>      I know how you feel.  Mine broke a while ago and now my
> Josephson junction computer simulator doesn't work any more.
> 
>      Has anyone gotten a liquid helium simulation going yet?

Yeah, you are one. SimFridge is up and running again.

Daniel Max P. Drucker

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