[TUHS] Re: the Courier font family and nroff history

[Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com>]

i work with tom, and he claims that he (tom) did the imagen messaging stuff.
i sill don’’t know who did the 202 handler code, even tho i was
the designated main handler of the paper and goo for the 202.

> On Mar 23, 2024, at 10:08 AM, Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:
> 
> Bill Cheswick:
> 
>> The Unix room text-to-speech device used to announce:
>> 
>> "Ding ding ding.  Please add goo.  This doesn’t happen very often."
> 
> Since we're all nerds here, I feel compelled to correct this.
> 
> The actual announcement was
> 
>    Help! Please add goo!
> 
> The suffix was applied to a different message:
> 
>    Please add toner.  You won't have to very often.
> 
> `Goo' was some sort of pre-mix that needed frequent topping up.
> Hence `you won't have to very often,' to remind you which was which.
> 
> Other messages included
> 
>   Please add paper.
>   Printer check lamp is lit.  What do you want to do about it?
>   Service check lamp is lit.  You're in big trouble now!
> 
> All these messages were designed by Tom Killian, who wrote the
> local code that controlled the 202.
> 
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON