From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] History repeating itself (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp)
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 21:08:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160801010846.GA15571@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMYpm87L17V5bOhHbQKKQ=QMbhv8t_x4+D252F=2gCY8GrwLpQ@mail.gmail.com>
Rudi Blom scripsit:
> To setup the 'infrastructure might be the tricky part. Many years ago
> I flew from Montreal to Amsterdam and had two stacks of 5-1/4"
> diskettes with me. No papers, confiscated in Amsterdam.
I carried an RK05 disk full of proprietary software from West Orange NJ
to a client in Kansas City back in 1977. Airport security existed, but
it wasn't as anal it is today. So when I told them they couldn't X-ray
the disk, it might scramble it, they wanted to do a physical inspection --
but I told them if they opened the disk they'd get dust in it and ruin it.
Finally they took my word for it.
When the disk got to the client's, it was completely scrambled anyway.
I went back home, and next week my partner went out with a stack of 5.25s.
It took him twenty hours to set up the client's system (I don't remember
if it was a PDP-8 or a PDP-11), but the job got done.
--
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But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn I am, Eomund's daughter.
You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-01 1:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-31 4:25 Rudi Blom
2016-08-01 1:08 ` John Cowan [this message]
2016-08-01 7:14 ` Rudi Blom
2016-08-01 17:11 ` scj
2016-08-01 18:32 ` Clem Cole
2016-08-02 22:38 ` Dave Horsfall
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-08-03 11:53 Norman Wilson
2016-07-27 20:28 [TUHS] Unix v6 problem with /tmp Mark Longridge
2016-07-27 20:31 ` William Pechter
2016-07-27 20:57 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-27 21:10 ` William Pechter
2016-07-28 0:49 ` Clem cole
2016-07-28 1:03 ` William Pechter
2016-07-28 11:23 ` [TUHS] History repeating itself (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp) Michael Kjörling
2016-07-28 12:18 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-28 13:57 ` John Cowan
2016-07-30 7:56 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-30 11:41 ` William Cheswick
2016-07-30 23:28 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-30 23:50 ` scj
2016-08-01 11:36 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-30 14:15 ` John Cowan
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