From: William Cheswick <ches@cheswick.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: the Courier font family and nroff history
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 12:03:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ED1DE1E9-833F-4122-B27D-6629950A6ADD@cheswick.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiV+K9gM=i6OrmdNCwUsL2nDy_JGPLiEhx6Uyh35RcJurQ@mail.gmail.com>
The Unix room text-to-speech device used to announce:
"Ding ding ding. Please add goo. This doesn’t happen very often."
> On Mar 23, 2024, at 11:37 AM, Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> Slight exaggeration. It wasn't money, It was time and messing
> with film cartridges, chemicals, and wet prints. You could buy a
> lot of typesetter film and developer for the price of a 4014.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-23 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-23 15:37 Douglas McIlroy
2024-03-23 16:03 ` William Cheswick [this message]
2024-03-23 17:08 ` Norman Wilson
2024-03-23 20:56 ` Rob Pike
2024-03-23 22:53 ` Rich Salz
2024-03-25 19:15 ` Andrew Hume
2024-03-23 16:36 ` G. Branden Robinson
[not found] <171123441022.817627.11524835891647187739@minnie.tuhs.org>
2024-03-23 23:05 ` Paul McJones
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