From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 6dbae7d8 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 16:37:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id F27CB94B53; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 02:37:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCB4A94B4E; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 02:37:16 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6CCB694B4E; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 02:37:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: from darkstar.fourwinds.com (fourwinds.com [63.64.179.162]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 151B194B4D for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2019 02:37:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: from darkstar.fourwinds.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by darkstar.fourwinds.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id x3IGbD5S007683 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:37:13 -0700 Received: from darkstar.fourwinds.com (jon@localhost) by darkstar.fourwinds.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id x3IGbDDM007680 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:37:13 -0700 Message-Id: <201904181637.x3IGbDDM007680@darkstar.fourwinds.com> From: Jon Steinhart To: tuhs@tuhs.org In-reply-to: <1555603775.18441.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> References: <1555603775.18441.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> Comments: In-reply-to Norman Wilson message dated "Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:09:31 -0400." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <7678.1555605433.1@darkstar.fourwinds.com> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 09:37:13 -0700 X-JON-SPAM: local delivery Subject: Re: [TUHS] Talk about some interesting things about Dennis X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Norman Wilson writes: > What is Dennis's character? Is he very humorous? Thank you. Well, this isn't specifically about his character, but the story of how I first met Ken and Dennis is amusing. And it was a long time ago so some of the details may be slightly off. I was a summer student working on the second floor of Building 2. My MO was to bike up to the labs every morning, and I do mean up if you've ever been on Glenside Road. I would work until dinner time, bike home, have dinner, borrow the car, and go back to the labs and work until I was almost too tired to drive home. In the wee hours one night I was waiting for something to run and was getting hungry, so I headed up the the food machines in the attic on the 6th floor. While I was waiting for my food I heard a very mechanical sounding voice going "fuck fuck fuck fuck ...". I had to investigate. Under a heating duct there was a door with a frosted glass window on which was an 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper on which the word UNIX was spelled out in black electrical tape. It was the source of the sound. I opened the door and discovered Ken and Dennis and maybe some others playing with their recently acquired Votrax speech synthesizer which they were teaching to swear. I also remember in later weeks that it would announce "x o'clock and all is well" on the hour where x was the current hour. I think that maybe everyone was high on the smell of the developer for the C/A/T paper. Jon