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From: todd@uvmark.uucp (Todd Cooper)
Subject: Re: Computer-related auto license tags
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 14:15:43 GMT
Organization: Vmark Software, Inc.

I have the Massachusetts license plate QUEUE

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From: gooley@netcom.com (Markian Gooley)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,talk.bizarre
Subject: Re: Help me upgrade my computer
Date: 17 Apr 92 02:02:51 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

If ever I get the time & money I will buy an original IBM PC case and
install a 50 MHz '486 motherboard and a 1 G disk in it.

Mark., running out of ideas
gooley@netcom.com
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Amusing index entries (was Re: Whales)
From: tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Farmer)
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 20:40:06 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <1992Apr07.061933.1483@public.sub.org> peterk@public.sub.org (Peter Kittel) writes:
>In <204020@unix.cis.pitt.edu> jgh1+@pitt.edu (John G Hardie) writes:
>>One of the ones that I liked was in a calculus book (but for the
>>life of me I can't remember the authors).  In the index is an entry
>>for Whales.  (WHALES?! What the Heck!?)  If you look up the references,
>>the pages have plots of some functions which look like - wait for it -
>>whales.
>
>As I'm in charge for our german user manuals, I was very proud to succeed
>in introducing a new entry in our Glossary part of the manual:
>     Endless loop -   See Endless loop
>Well, I must admit I didn't invent this, I saw it in other glossaries
>before, but it was a nice feeling to see this printed. But on the next 
>revision of the manual, it was cancelled again.

Ok, I confess.

One of my current user manuals has the following glossary entry...
 
	Glossary - A list of words and their meanings.
 
Or something along those lines.

Actually, the table of contents generation on my word processor picks
up the heading for the table of contents...
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: You know you've been in hack mode too long when...
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 07:41:56 GMT

In article <9768iB2w164w@unkaphaed.UUCP> phaedrus@unkaphaed.UUCP (James Hartman, Sysop) writes:
>callum@bain3.bain.oz.au (Callum Gibson) writes:
>
>> One that happened to me:  I was reading a page of text (on paper) and when I'
>> finished the page pressed the spacebar...
>
>This happened to me - while watching TV, I keep trying to press CTL-S so I can
>get up and get a snack.  Guess that's why VCRs were invented...  ;)

And you can't fast-forward through the commercials off the air either, but I
have tried. :-).

As long as you don't try to press CTL-S while driving to pause the other cars
there's some hope for you :-).

cjl (Don't personally observe Xon/Xoff protocol for bodily functions :-))


Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: c9037544@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (David M Williams)
Subject: Re: Why is a byte called a byte?
Organization: Uni of Newcastle, Australia
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 00:20:38 GMT

In <1303900001@igc.org> pic@igc.org wrote:
> Can anyone out there tell me why a byte is called a byte?  Who
> came up with the term?  When was it first used?

A bit is called so as it is short for 'binary digit'. Byte is the plural form
of bit in Latin. A nybble is just plain silly.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Easter Egg FAQ list
From: tomlin@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (M. Tomlinson)
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:01:59 +1200
Reply-To: mark@garden.equinox.gen.nz
Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Talking about Easter Eggs in Amiga Software, being the author of IBeM (an
IBM XT emulator), I know of a couple in that. Every screen on an Amiga has a
name, but the name is not displayed under IBeM (its covered by the window).
It is possible to still find this, however.  Its name has been set to "Pyla
Crap Combatable" for obvious reasons...

I have been told that whilst demonstrating it to a user group, someone came
across this, and everyone bust into laughter.

There is also a strange BIOS name ("Pyla Crap's 68000 bios"), and the
interrupt used for the timer is called "PC's Ticker".

Of course this is nothing compared to the official CBM bridgeboard
software (bridgeboard is a plug in PC on a card for Amigas) which is
called Janus (for obvious reasons), and one of the bridgeboard's 
tasks is called 'zaphod' :-)

Cheers... Mark
From: vijay@cdsun.fnal.gov (Vijay Gurbani)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: You know you've been in hack mode too long when...
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:25:05 GMT

you wish you could study for an exam by executing the command:
  
   $ cat civ100 | tee brain

or, better yet, do this to your Western Civ teacher:

   $ kill -9 <INSTRUCTOR>


 (____)    Chicago Bulls                       Vijay K. Gurbani
'(o  o)`   1991-92 NBA World Champions         Fermi National Accelerator Lab.
  \  /     05 23 24 33 54                      vijay@{cdsun,fnsg01}.fnal.gov
== OO =====All opinions are mine, of course====================================
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: s8759859@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Tig Stone)
Subject: Re: Slashed o's (o's, not zeros)?
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 22:16:07 GMT

Well, I haven't been around for any amount of time in the computer
field, or any other field, but I JUST noticed that the machine I'm
using right now has slashed 0's.  And what's odd is that I've been
using this machine for a couple of months, and didn't notice it.  If
you came up to me on the street before today and asked "Does your
terminal have slashed 0's?" I couldn't of answered.  So, does it make
a difference at this point in time to use slashed 0's?  I JUST D0N'T
KN0W...

--
T. Stone 
(s8759859@titan.ucc.umass.edu)
From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Why is a byte called a byte?
Date: 13 Apr 92 17:55:41 GMT
Organization: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany

In article <rm7Hpb!o6@cs.psu.edu> dsbarr@cs.psu.edu writes:
>In article <c9037544.703124438@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au> c9037544@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (David M Williams) writes:
>>A bit is called so as it is short for 'binary digit'. Byte is the plural form
>>of bit in Latin. 
>
>What the hell?  Have you taken latin?

You can see that. The question is, where did he take it to?
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: frank@rover.uchicago.edu (Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger)
Subject: Re: Those wackhy K&R guys
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Reply-To: frank@rover.uchicago.edu
Organization: Joint Center for Radiation Therapy
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 22:28:00 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.191544.25021@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes...
> 
>They probably did mean caster.  Did you ever taste the stuff they lubricate the
>casters on a DEC H-960 cabinet with :-( :-( :-(  :-).
> 
>cjl

	Did you hear about the programmer who got killed checking the oil
	on his CPU.... the H960 fell on him!

+---_      Frank R. Borger - Physicist     Internet:  Frank@rover.uchicago.edu
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Date: Wednesday, 15 Apr 1992 16:21:54 EDT
From: Norman St. John Polevaulter <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: You kyou've been in hack mode too long ...
 <1992Apr14.063941.6306@cs.uow.edu.au> <1992Apr14.071359.9699@cs.uow.edu.au>

>I know someone who, during a phase of Armour Alley (on Macs), started playing
>while driving. He would plan schemes that, if he changed lanes, he would
>be able to kill the car in front of him, because he would be on the same
>level, and the missiles would get a lock (!).

Or if you've been playing "STUN Runner," and then while driving in heavy
traffic start reaching for the "Shockwave" button...

>You know you've been in hack mode to long when you test a program, and
>it fails, so you jump into the editor, look at it, jump out, recompile and
>test (without making changes) and it still doesn't work, so
>you jump ........ and it still doesn't work ...... recompile without
>any changes........ (this tends to happen after 24+ hours ;-))

Ugh. This has happened to me too many times. Embarrassing, ain't it?

[Your blood pressure just went up.]       Mark Sachs IS: mbs110@psuvm.psu.edu
 DISCLAIMER: Penn State cares about my money, not my opinions.
  "All my father wanted to do was make a toaster you could really set the
    darkness on -- and you perverted his work into those horrible machines!"
From: iisakkil@lesti.hut.fi (Mika R Iisakkila)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Why Grey? Are computer unhappy objects?
Date: 10 Apr 92 09:12:19 GMT
	<1992Apr6.195838.14243@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology

aduell@isis.cs.du.edu (Tony Duell) writes:
>ICL terminals were sometimes bright orange!~

You can get ICL (former Nokia Data or Alfaskop in some countries) PCs
in a number of colours, similar to the new Silicon Graphics machines.
I even believe that I've seen a pink Nokia Data PC somewhere, but I
may have been hallucinating.

I've always wanted to paint my box with camouflage colours, but I've
never had the energy to go and buy the paint.

--Mika
From: lsmith@cs.umn.edu (Lance "Cogsworth" Smith)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Why is a byte called a byte?
Date: 11 Apr 92 23:07:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Apr11.230746.25580
Distribution: na
Organization: Little Bytes of the Poor

In article <1303900001@igc.org> pic@igc.org writes:
>
>Can anyone out there tell me why a byte is called a byte?  Who
>came up with the term?  When was it first used?

Popular opinion is the byte was first used by the deigners of the IBM
7030 (Project Stretch). This would put the date about 1956. According to 
Werner Buchholtz, the term came from bite but was respelled to avoid 
bite being mutated back to bit.

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: bwatson@isis.cs.du.edu (bruce watson)
Subject: Re: Slashed O
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 20:10:07 GMT

In article <AdvGsNO00Vsa8=5bFm@andrew.cmu.edu> "Joseph M. Newcomer" <jn11+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>When I worked on IBM equipment (1620, 1440), we slashed the letter O and
>left the digit 0 unslashed.
>
>                            joe
>

I worked on a 1620 back in college. One day the typewriter threw the zero.
There were no zeros available so they used a slashed O. Luckily there
was not a lot of alpha printed in those days.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: mrz50957@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (SEQUENT V2.0)
Subject: Re: Easter Egg FAQ list
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 21:11:08 GMT

Norman St. John Polevaulter <MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:

>While we're at it, the new OS2.04 has its own set of secret messages.
>When workbench is running, hold down control, alt, and shift, and start
>selecting items from the leftmost Workbench menu. It may take a few
>tries to get them, but they're in there.


Another nifty treat that CBM has included with 2.04, is on the System Install
disk.  Go into the Tools drawer, and select view all.  There's some foolder
there (can't remember the name) and when you open it, all you will see is one
huge icon on all the signatures of all the individuals that worked on the
2.04 release.  Click on it and you'll see the typed names of those same
people.  No prog to load, but it is kinda neat.  If anyone's interested, I
got this info from .INFO, this past issue.
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 02:53:46 -0400 
From: "Joseph M. Newcomer" <jn11+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Creative comments

A piece of code similar to this appeared in one of my programs.  When
my friend encountered it he fell out of his chair (literally).  One of
the best "time bombs" I ever planted....

    for(p=listhead; p != NULL; )
      {
       struct list * np = p->next;
       free(p);
       p = np;  /* and you thought computational complexity was hard! */
      }

                        joe

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: xexeo@dxlaa.cern.ch (Geraldo Xexeo)
Subject: How could I forgot!
Reply-To: xexeo@dxlaa.cern.ch
Organization: CERN - European Organization for Particle Physics
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 09:11:49 GMT


How could I forgot Joseph Newcomer as a celebrity! After discussing
he is actually called Newcomer (and that is not a Newbie account),
yesterday he proved he can post really A LOT to a.f.c.

                  Jerry

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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Patron saint of programmers?
Date: 6 Apr 92 19:10:17 GMT
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA

g8801935@cs.uow.edu.au (The Jester) writes:
>The Warlock (at Large, enraged....) has a monastic sect of engineers,
>it has kind of Murphy deity. I can't remember the author off hand, I 
>will find out if anyone wants me to.

St. Vidicon of Cathode
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From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Why Grey? Are computer unhappy objects?
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:48:46 GMT
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

In <1992Apr8.124407.6290@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> ury@mosque.huji.ac.il (Ury Segal) writes:

>In article <YdsEnOm00VpPIF43Zi@andrew.cmu.edu>, Joseph Wei-Cheng Ku <jk73+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Hm. My Mac IIcx is white. (Well, was when it was new..). Anyhaow it is not GREY
>like the old Macs.

You're confused.  It's the newer Macs that are grey.
All Macs before the II were yellow.

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From: Jay.Ashworth@f160.n3603.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jay Ashworth)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Help me upgrade my computer
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 17:17:00 EDT
Organization: FidoNet node 1:3603/160 - Hacker's Haven, Clearwater FL

In a message of <Thursday April 16 1992>, Vadim Antonov wrote to All:

 VA> Real hackers usually have their machines undecorated with all
 VA> covers removed for easier access and better ventilation (though
 VA> i know a machine which wouldn't work without covers due to heating
 VA> problems! PC is not a case, though).

Actually, most PC class machines require their covers to be installed, because they depend on flow-through ventilation, pulled by the power supply fan.  If you leave the cover off, the only thing which gets cooled is your PS.

Your processor chip Will Not Like This.

Cheers,
-- jra

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 23:49:34 -0400 
From: "Andrew C. Plotkin" <ap1i+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: You know you've been in hack mode too long when...
	<viking.703041768@vincent1.iastate.edu>
	<JKONRATH.92Apr11222843@bronze.bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
	<Edu_RiK00WAxMq3XoU@andrew.cmu.edu>

jkonrath@bronze.bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jon Konrath) writes:
>anyone else wake up in the middle of the night with a half-idea
>on a program, and cant figure out why your emacs wont let you
>enter stuff, before you realize youre not in front of a computer?

I once had a dream in which I was in a really bad situation, bad enough
that I decided to kill myself. (Details not relevant.) So how do I plan
to kill myself? Well, I've got this little device that will change my
name to something random. 'Cos if I change my name, then nobody who knew
me can access me, so I'm effectively dead. Right?

That's not the scary part, of course. The scary part is that this still
almost makes sense. 

--Z
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: dsbarr@ratfor.cs.psu.edu (Dave Barr)
Subject: Wargames (was: Re: Easter Egg FAQ list)
Reply-To: dsbarr@cs.psu.edu
Organization: Penn State Computer Science
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 11:26:47 GMT

In article <FRIEDMAN.92Apr13065226@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:
>   The first thing that happens when some kid figures out the password in
>the movie is that he gets the message
>
>        Greetings Professor Falken!
>
>        Would you like to play a game (Yes/No)?

Uh, make that:

Greetings Professor Falken.

(I don't believe it was right away, but the computer asks:)

Shall we play a game?

[with that wonderful magical computer synthesized voice which has been
covered here MANY times before.  :-)]

--Dave
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,talk.bizarre
From: jkonrath@bronze.bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jon Konrath)
Subject: Re: Help me upgrade my computer
Organization: No organization. No life. Just emacs.
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:47:59


some other ideas for the creative on what to do with a pc:

- what about getting an ancient 1950's philco tv, with the wood trim and all
  and dropping it all in there?

- wouldnt it be cool to somehow mount all of the parts in a specially made
  plexiglass aquarium?

- what kind of car do you have?  i bet that motherboard would go under the
  dash, and the monitor would sit nice on the center console.  it would 
  be like driving the space shuttle to work every day (see related thread
  for accuracy of design)

- follow up on the recent thread and do teac sides and posh leather trim.

- fender successfuly marketed guitars in both a bowling-ball marble and a 
  psychadelic-day-glo-paisley finish.  how would that look?

- dont forget the nascar covered-with-endorsements racecar look.  put 
  all your intel and seagate endorsements on it.  cover the empty drive
  bays with that nylon netting like the stock cars have on the windows.
 
- what about a futuristic plastic case, like out of a scifi movie?  something
  that looks like a small cray or something.

- i'd personally model it after a budweiser truck...

right now i have my $30 8088 i use as nothing more than a terminal and 
tetris machine sitting inside a $100 mini tower case that has a small
486/33 decal on it.....

-jon
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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,rec.arts.sf.written,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: WAR GAMES II, or How I Learned To Start Worrying And Hate The Bomb
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:34:11 GMT
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.bfm.com (Tom Neff)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers

In article <1g3rDF#1Tk59P5SwGKn69bsC67T054D=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>Thanks.  To *all* of you.  The volume of fan mail has been remarkable; I'm
>gratified that so many enjoyed this mini-epic.

I was embarrassed at it, to tell the truth.  If the lady under the
mountain is allowed to send in reader response cards bearing her real
work address, then by definition it shouldn't be too awe-inspiring to
get one.  I bet any number of other companies have received them in the
past without feeling the need to go on about it here at essay length.

I also bet that if the book ad warned prospective respondents that
their names and addresses would be selected at random and rebroadcast
worldwide over Usenet, there'd be a lot fewer cards received.

Just another piece of fan mail :-)

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From: Greg_Goss@mindlink.bc.ca (Greg Goss)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Slashed o's (o's, not zeros)?
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:37:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: mindlink.11410
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

> Ted Turo'cy writes:
> 
> 
> which the 'o' was slashed.  What caught my eye was a footnote (from the
> original story) which said something to the effect that "it was common
> computing practice for printers to slash o's so that there would be no
> confusion with zeroes".  Well, as far as I can remember (~10 yrs), I've
> only seen _zeroes_ slashed, and never o's (except, of course, in those
> languages which have the slashed-o as a character...).  Anyone know
> when this practice changed?  Are there any more "modern" notable systems
> to used the slashed 'o'?


I have used slashed zeros in several IBM (and Xerox) mainframe shops.

As of the middling-late eighties I was slashing oh's at work in the daytime and
slashing zeroes at home in the evenings.  And they wonder where my sanity
went...


.../greg

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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Computers
From: don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes)
Date: 7 Apr 92 09:17:09 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Wolery

rabel@netcom.com (Robert Abeles) writes:
> Data Storage

> Random-access, nonvolatile, nondestructive-readout ferrite cores 
> were selected as the main memory for maximum reliability. Use of 

Ummm, could you (or someone) explain how nondestructive-readout core
works?  

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