From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Coastal cultures, collaboration, creativity and Sun vs DEC.
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:57:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202201112057.20BKvLtV2357171@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgxYPt+HHrpiCF7fKKq73ZGMz_HjdQtoSbz5dPtG9kKPjg@mail.gmail.com>
Rob Pike writes:
> Similar. Everyone at Bell Labs was so *proper*. (Except Ken, of course.
> Ken is *sui generis*, and a Californian).
>
> I'm sure it wasn't really me, but it felt like I was the first person to
> utter a curse word in the Unix room.
That might be a technicality. I discovered the Unix room late one night
when blood sugar was running low so I hit the candy machines on the sixth
floor of building 2. While I was getting my snack, I heard a robotic
voice coming from down the hall saying "fuck fuck fuck fuck". I had to
investigate. Found a small door with a frosted glass window that had an
8.5x11 piece of paper taped to in on which was spelled out the word UNIX
in block letters in I believe black electrical tape. Opened the door to
discover that a Votrax had been acquired and that Ken and Dennis were
teaching it to swear. So they must have at least known those words.
On another technicality, I bicycled to the labs every day, naturally uphill
in both directions. Not possible to avoid sweating when pushing up Glenside
Road. And no showers available; those were for the security guards only.
Turned out that dress code was up to supervisors, and Joe Condon was fine
with me wearing shorts to work. I often got glared at when walking down the
hall and had to explain myself to the "proper" folks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-11 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-11 18:36 Dan Cross
2022-01-11 18:45 ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-11 18:50 ` John Floren
2022-01-11 19:34 ` John Cowan
2022-01-11 20:17 ` Rob Pike
2022-01-11 20:25 ` George Michaelson
2022-01-11 20:44 ` Rob Pike
2022-01-11 20:57 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2022-01-11 22:17 ` John P. Linderman
2022-01-11 22:41 ` Andrew Hume
2022-01-12 0:15 ` Rob Pike
2022-01-11 22:14 ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-13 15:44 ` Dan Cross
2022-01-12 23:15 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-01-13 1:34 ` Adam Thornton
2022-01-13 15:37 ` Dan Cross
2022-01-13 16:32 ` Bakul Shah
2022-01-13 16:48 ` Richard Salz
2022-01-13 17:20 ` Bakul Shah
2022-01-13 19:56 ` John Cowan
2022-01-12 3:38 Douglas McIlroy
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