From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 18:00:20 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] Happy New Year and an amusing story from the past
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Norman Wilson scripsit:

> Dave Horsfall:
> 
> > At yet another, we had a Sun 3/50 window connected to a Convex, and acted 
> > all innocent when various dweebs did the old "echo 99k2vp..." etc trick.
> 
> You can see why letting people type that on a Convex thinking it was
> a Sun 3/50 might have entertainment value.

Ah.  I interpreted what Dave said as the other way around: you walked
up to the Convex but were teleported to the Sun, and ended up thinking
"Ghu, this Convex is slow".

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
Half the lies they tell about me are true.
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