Computer Old Farts Forum
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
To: segaloco via COFF <coff@tuhs.org>
Cc: segaloco <segaloco@protonmail.com>
Subject: [COFF] Re: Smokin' In the Terminal Room
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2023 07:07:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7w34yxihj5.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kCWRaGdEQbYcLzKLtskm8W8TwuJNOFazJfTJd2zItrppXPdUqBnbTovqYA-9NTQ5AUqrRe2uX8KYR3TaReOP7xRPbg5c-xalfkbVIsFj3fY=@protonmail.com> (segaloco via COFF's message of "Fri, 29 Sep 2023 03:03:01 +0000")

Photos of the MIT AI lab PDP-6 has a sign with "NO SMOKING".  Some of
the hackers famously detested smoking, to the point of carrying around a
fan to divert smoke in restaurants.

Here we can see someone smoking, and maybe the sign was put up later.
http://its.pdp10.se/pdp6-timeline/

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-29  7:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-29  3:03 [COFF] " segaloco via COFF
2023-09-29  7:07 ` Lars Brinkhoff [this message]
2023-09-29  7:24   ` [COFF] " Lars Brinkhoff
2023-09-29  9:39 ` Rod Bartlett via COFF

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=7w34yxihj5.fsf@junk.nocrew.org \
    --to=lars@nocrew.org \
    --cc=coff@tuhs.org \
    --cc=segaloco@protonmail.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).