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* [TUHS] Center 127 directory from 6/17/77
@ 2022-12-27  2:10 Tom Lyon
  2022-12-27  2:36 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
  2022-12-27 13:30 ` Ralph Corderoy
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Tom Lyon @ 2022-12-27  2:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: TUHS main list


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More grist from the scanner.

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* [TUHS] Re: Center 127 directory from 6/17/77
  2022-12-27  2:10 [TUHS] Center 127 directory from 6/17/77 Tom Lyon
@ 2022-12-27  2:36 ` Larry McVoy
  2022-12-27  3:36   ` Rob Pike
  2022-12-27 13:30 ` Ralph Corderoy
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Larry McVoy @ 2022-12-27  2:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tom Lyon; +Cc: TUHS main list

That's a who's who of Unix.  I didn't know you were part of that Pugs,
I am jealous.  I feel fortunate that I got to be part of what I think
of as the good Sun, the 4.x days, to me, that felt as close to Bell Labs
as you could get in that time.

You've lived through a lot.

I did twist arms to be lm@sun.com and got to be lm@cs.stanford.edu, I miss
lm@sun.com a lot, so short, Unix people like short, it's "ls" not "list".
It really was the best part of my career but it is nothing like what I
imagine being at the end of an uucp email address ending up at Bell Labs.


On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 06:10:17PM -0800, Tom Lyon wrote:
> More grist from the scanner.



-- 
---
Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing          http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat

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* [TUHS] Re: Center 127 directory from 6/17/77
  2022-12-27  2:36 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
@ 2022-12-27  3:36   ` Rob Pike
  2022-12-27  4:51     ` James Johnston
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Rob Pike @ 2022-12-27  3:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Larry McVoy; +Cc: Tom Lyon, TUHS main list

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Sweet, thanks for that.

That was before research!rob arrived, but most of those names were still
there when he did.

-rob


On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 1:37 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

> That's a who's who of Unix.  I didn't know you were part of that Pugs,
> I am jealous.  I feel fortunate that I got to be part of what I think
> of as the good Sun, the 4.x days, to me, that felt as close to Bell Labs
> as you could get in that time.
>
> You've lived through a lot.
>
> I did twist arms to be lm@sun.com and got to be lm@cs.stanford.edu, I miss
> lm@sun.com a lot, so short, Unix people like short, it's "ls" not "list".
> It really was the best part of my career but it is nothing like what I
> imagine being at the end of an uucp email address ending up at Bell Labs.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 06:10:17PM -0800, Tom Lyon wrote:
> > More grist from the scanner.
>
>
>
> --
> ---
> Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing
> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
>

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* [TUHS] Re: Center 127 directory from 6/17/77
  2022-12-27  3:36   ` Rob Pike
@ 2022-12-27  4:51     ` James Johnston
  2022-12-27  5:10       ` Rob Pike
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: James Johnston @ 2022-12-27  4:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

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Yeah, but Rob, where was Fred?  I was there in Acoustics Research (not
127!) then, using R70 for UCDS.

I'm pretty sure I distinctly recall Fred Grampp being around then.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 7:38 PM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sweet, thanks for that.
>
> That was before research!rob arrived, but most of those names were still
> there when he did.
>
> -rob
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 1:37 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
>> That's a who's who of Unix.  I didn't know you were part of that Pugs,
>> I am jealous.  I feel fortunate that I got to be part of what I think
>> of as the good Sun, the 4.x days, to me, that felt as close to Bell Labs
>> as you could get in that time.
>>
>> You've lived through a lot.
>>
>> I did twist arms to be lm@sun.com and got to be lm@cs.stanford.edu, I
>> miss
>> lm@sun.com a lot, so short, Unix people like short, it's "ls" not "list".
>> It really was the best part of my career but it is nothing like what I
>> imagine being at the end of an uucp email address ending up at Bell Labs.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 06:10:17PM -0800, Tom Lyon wrote:
>> > More grist from the scanner.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ---
>> Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing
>> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
>>
>

-- 
James D. (jj) Johnston

Chief Scientist, Immersion Networks

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* [TUHS] Re: Center 127 directory from 6/17/77
  2022-12-27  4:51     ` James Johnston
@ 2022-12-27  5:10       ` Rob Pike
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Rob Pike @ 2022-12-27  5:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: James Johnston; +Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

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Not in (1)127 yet. He was transferred in some time after I arrived. Not
sure quite when. Mid-80s maybe.

-rob


On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 3:53 PM James Johnston <audioskeptic@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Yeah, but Rob, where was Fred?  I was there in Acoustics Research (not
> 127!) then, using R70 for UCDS.
>
> I'm pretty sure I distinctly recall Fred Grampp being around then.
>
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 7:38 PM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sweet, thanks for that.
>>
>> That was before research!rob arrived, but most of those names were still
>> there when he did.
>>
>> -rob
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 1:37 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That's a who's who of Unix.  I didn't know you were part of that Pugs,
>>> I am jealous.  I feel fortunate that I got to be part of what I think
>>> of as the good Sun, the 4.x days, to me, that felt as close to Bell Labs
>>> as you could get in that time.
>>>
>>> You've lived through a lot.
>>>
>>> I did twist arms to be lm@sun.com and got to be lm@cs.stanford.edu, I
>>> miss
>>> lm@sun.com a lot, so short, Unix people like short, it's "ls" not
>>> "list".
>>> It really was the best part of my career but it is nothing like what I
>>> imagine being at the end of an uucp email address ending up at Bell Labs.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 26, 2022 at 06:10:17PM -0800, Tom Lyon wrote:
>>> > More grist from the scanner.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> ---
>>> Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing
>>> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
>>>
>>
>
> --
> James D. (jj) Johnston
>
> Chief Scientist, Immersion Networks
>

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* [TUHS] Re: Center 127 directory from 6/17/77
  2022-12-27  2:10 [TUHS] Center 127 directory from 6/17/77 Tom Lyon
  2022-12-27  2:36 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
@ 2022-12-27 13:30 ` Ralph Corderoy
  2022-12-27 15:18   ` Larry McVoy
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Ralph Corderoy @ 2022-12-27 13:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tom Lyon; +Cc: tuhs

Hi,

Tom Lyon, 2C-557, wrote:
> More grist from the scanner.

Here's the second page ordered by room then name.

- I thought quite a few shared, two to an office, but not in this
  June 1977 list.
- John Vollaro office is the Network Lab.
- 2C-525 isn't listed; between Bob Morris and Doug McIlroy.
- Joe Condon, Belle's co-creator, had two offices.
- The secretaries shared, along with ‘UNIX Documentation Specialist’
  Miss C. Scrocca.
- ‘Patent Consultant’ S. J. Phillips is only on page 1 so perhaps the
  two pages were maintained manually.

    12           4232  -   Tucker, Frank E.            1A-324
    -            4233  -   - Verrico, Mrs. B.          1A-326
    1274         6429  -   Kaufman, Linda              2C-457
    1274         6429  **  Ryan, Ms. D. R.             2C-457
    1274         6558  -   Blue, James L.              2C-459
    1274         2833  -   Wamer, Daniel D.            2C-461
    1274         2912  -   Schryer, Norman L.          2C-462
    -            6087  -   Network Machine Room        2C-501
    -     3445 & 3744  -   UNIX Room                   2C-502
    1273         6321  -   Vollaro, John R.            2C-505
    -            6087  -   Network Lab                 2C-505
    1270         6694  -   Condon, Joseph H.           2C-507
    1273         5956  **  Stark, Eugene W.            2C-507
    -     3445 & 3744  -   Console Room                2C-508
    1273         2879  -   Elliott, Ruby Jane          2C-511
    1273         7419  -   Bourne, Stephen R.          2C-512
    1271         5970  **  Wing, Ms. Jeannette M.      2C-513
    1271         6503  -   Baker, Ms. Brenda S.        2C-514
    1271         5963  **  Myers, Eugene W.            2C-515
    1271         6067  -   Cherry, Ms. Lorinda L.      2C-516
    1273         3770  -   Ritchie, Dennis M.          2C-517
    1273         6021  -   Kernighan, Brian W.         2C-518
    1271         4006  -   Sethi, Ravi                 2C-519
    1273         3685  -   Fraser, Alexander G.        2C-520
    1271         3520  -   Ossanna, Joseph F., Jr.     2C-521
    1271         4862  -   Aho, Alfred V.              2C-522
    1271         2394  -   Thompson, Kenneth           2C-523
    1271         3878  -   W. Morris, Robert           2C-524
    1271         6050  -   Mcllroy, M. Douglas         2C-526
    -            6011  -   Library                     2C-553
    1270         3302  -   McMahon, Lee E.             2C-555
    1270         6694  -   Condon, Joseph H.           2C-556
    1273         2761  **  Lyon, T. L.                 2C-557
    1273         2761  *   Mitze, Robert W.            2C-557
    1273         7775  -   Chesson, Greg L.            2C-558
    1273         3968  -   Johnson, Stephen C.         2C-559
    127          6490  -   Morgan, Samuel P.           2C-560
    1273         2582  -   Pinson, Elliot N.           2C-561
    -            6695  -   - Marky, Miss Geraldine A.  2C-562
    -            6051  -   - Marky, Miss Geraldine A.  2C-562
    -            6491  -   - Chittenden, Ms. Sonia A.  2C-562
    -            2583  -   - Chittenden, Ms. Sonia A.  2C-562
    -            5401  -   - Logan, Mrs. Vera G.       2C-562
    12           5400  -   Prim, Robert C.             2C-563
    1274         2059  -   Feldman, Stuart I.          2C-570
    1274         6377  -   Lesk, Michael E.            2C-572
    1274         4822  -   Brown, W. Stanley           2C-574
    -            4823  -   - Jones, Mrs. Cleeva Y.     2C-579
    -            3303  -   - Jones, Mrs. Cleeva Y.     2C-579
    7133         7685  -   Scrocca, Carmela            2C-579
    -            4508  -   - Bittrich, Mrs. Mary E.    2C-579
    12           4507  -   Tukey, John W.              2C-580
    -            2574  -   - Luciani, Mrs. Dorothy     7E-413
    1276         2573  -   Terry, Milton E.            7F-502

    *   Intern from Dept. 5432
    **  Summer


I recall a rough map of the corridor popping up on this list.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.

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* [TUHS] Re: Center 127 directory from 6/17/77
  2022-12-27 13:30 ` Ralph Corderoy
@ 2022-12-27 15:18   ` Larry McVoy
  2022-12-29  0:36     ` Douglas McIlroy
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Larry McVoy @ 2022-12-27 15:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ralph Corderoy; +Cc: Tom Lyon, tuhs

Well this lines up with my records:

slovax$ call ritchie
Dennis Ritchie                  908-582-3770 (W/bell labs)

Same as the extension listed below.

Dennis was one of the well known people who taught me that if you had
done your homework, he was more than willing to talk to you.  I had some
question about inodes (I think, it was something in the kernel) and we
traded emails for a while and then he sent me his phone number saying
"this will be faster".  Kind of blew my mind at the time.

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 01:30:44PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Tom Lyon, 2C-557, wrote:
> > More grist from the scanner.
> 
> Here's the second page ordered by room then name.
> 
> - I thought quite a few shared, two to an office, but not in this
>   June??1977 list.
> - John Vollaro office is the Network Lab.
> - 2C-525 isn't listed; between Bob Morris and Doug McIlroy.
> - Joe Condon, Belle's co-creator, had two offices.
> - The secretaries shared, along with ???UNIX Documentation Specialist???
>   Miss C. Scrocca.
> - ???Patent Consultant??? S. J. Phillips is only on page 1 so perhaps the
>   two pages were maintained manually.
> 
>     12           4232  -   Tucker, Frank E.            1A-324
>     -            4233  -   - Verrico, Mrs. B.          1A-326
>     1274         6429  -   Kaufman, Linda              2C-457
>     1274         6429  **  Ryan, Ms. D. R.             2C-457
>     1274         6558  -   Blue, James L.              2C-459
>     1274         2833  -   Wamer, Daniel D.            2C-461
>     1274         2912  -   Schryer, Norman L.          2C-462
>     -            6087  -   Network Machine Room        2C-501
>     -     3445 & 3744  -   UNIX Room                   2C-502
>     1273         6321  -   Vollaro, John R.            2C-505
>     -            6087  -   Network Lab                 2C-505
>     1270         6694  -   Condon, Joseph H.           2C-507
>     1273         5956  **  Stark, Eugene W.            2C-507
>     -     3445 & 3744  -   Console Room                2C-508
>     1273         2879  -   Elliott, Ruby Jane          2C-511
>     1273         7419  -   Bourne, Stephen R.          2C-512
>     1271         5970  **  Wing, Ms. Jeannette M.      2C-513
>     1271         6503  -   Baker, Ms. Brenda S.        2C-514
>     1271         5963  **  Myers, Eugene W.            2C-515
>     1271         6067  -   Cherry, Ms. Lorinda L.      2C-516
>     1273         3770  -   Ritchie, Dennis M.          2C-517
>     1273         6021  -   Kernighan, Brian W.         2C-518
>     1271         4006  -   Sethi, Ravi                 2C-519
>     1273         3685  -   Fraser, Alexander G.        2C-520
>     1271         3520  -   Ossanna, Joseph F., Jr.     2C-521
>     1271         4862  -   Aho, Alfred V.              2C-522
>     1271         2394  -   Thompson, Kenneth           2C-523
>     1271         3878  -   W. Morris, Robert           2C-524
>     1271         6050  -   Mcllroy, M. Douglas         2C-526
>     -            6011  -   Library                     2C-553
>     1270         3302  -   McMahon, Lee E.             2C-555
>     1270         6694  -   Condon, Joseph H.           2C-556
>     1273         2761  **  Lyon, T. L.                 2C-557
>     1273         2761  *   Mitze, Robert W.            2C-557
>     1273         7775  -   Chesson, Greg L.            2C-558
>     1273         3968  -   Johnson, Stephen C.         2C-559
>     127          6490  -   Morgan, Samuel P.           2C-560
>     1273         2582  -   Pinson, Elliot N.           2C-561
>     -            6695  -   - Marky, Miss Geraldine A.  2C-562
>     -            6051  -   - Marky, Miss Geraldine A.  2C-562
>     -            6491  -   - Chittenden, Ms. Sonia A.  2C-562
>     -            2583  -   - Chittenden, Ms. Sonia A.  2C-562
>     -            5401  -   - Logan, Mrs. Vera G.       2C-562
>     12           5400  -   Prim, Robert C.             2C-563
>     1274         2059  -   Feldman, Stuart I.          2C-570
>     1274         6377  -   Lesk, Michael E.            2C-572
>     1274         4822  -   Brown, W. Stanley           2C-574
>     -            4823  -   - Jones, Mrs. Cleeva Y.     2C-579
>     -            3303  -   - Jones, Mrs. Cleeva Y.     2C-579
>     7133         7685  -   Scrocca, Carmela            2C-579
>     -            4508  -   - Bittrich, Mrs. Mary E.    2C-579
>     12           4507  -   Tukey, John W.              2C-580
>     -            2574  -   - Luciani, Mrs. Dorothy     7E-413
>     1276         2573  -   Terry, Milton E.            7F-502
> 
>     *   Intern from Dept. 5432
>     **  Summer
> 
> 
> I recall a rough map of the corridor popping up on this list.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Ralph.

-- 
---
Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing          http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat

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* [TUHS] Re: Center 127 directory from 6/17/77
  2022-12-27 15:18   ` Larry McVoy
@ 2022-12-29  0:36     ` Douglas McIlroy
  2022-12-29  1:12       ` segaloco via TUHS
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: Douglas McIlroy @ 2022-12-29  0:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Larry McVoy; +Cc: Tom Lyon, tuhs

Trivia: Morris (eventually Pike) was next door to McIlroy. 2C-525 was
across the hall; it soon became home to Condon and the cube of uranium
he kept in his desk to show people that it's not normally dangerous.

Doug

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 10:18 AM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
> Well this lines up with my records:
>
> slovax$ call ritchie
> Dennis Ritchie                  908-582-3770 (W/bell labs)
>
> Same as the extension listed below.
>
> Dennis was one of the well known people who taught me that if you had
> done your homework, he was more than willing to talk to you.  I had some
> question about inodes (I think, it was something in the kernel) and we
> traded emails for a while and then he sent me his phone number saying
> "this will be faster".  Kind of blew my mind at the time.
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 01:30:44PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Tom Lyon, 2C-557, wrote:
> > > More grist from the scanner.
> >
> > Here's the second page ordered by room then name.
> >
> > - I thought quite a few shared, two to an office, but not in this
> >   June??1977 list.
> > - John Vollaro office is the Network Lab.
> > - 2C-525 isn't listed; between Bob Morris and Doug McIlroy.
> > - Joe Condon, Belle's co-creator, had two offices.
> > - The secretaries shared, along with ???UNIX Documentation Specialist???
> >   Miss C. Scrocca.
> > - ???Patent Consultant??? S. J. Phillips is only on page 1 so perhaps the
> >   two pages were maintained manually.
> >
> >     12           4232  -   Tucker, Frank E.            1A-324
> >     -            4233  -   - Verrico, Mrs. B.          1A-326
> >     1274         6429  -   Kaufman, Linda              2C-457
> >     1274         6429  **  Ryan, Ms. D. R.             2C-457
> >     1274         6558  -   Blue, James L.              2C-459
> >     1274         2833  -   Wamer, Daniel D.            2C-461
> >     1274         2912  -   Schryer, Norman L.          2C-462
> >     -            6087  -   Network Machine Room        2C-501
> >     -     3445 & 3744  -   UNIX Room                   2C-502
> >     1273         6321  -   Vollaro, John R.            2C-505
> >     -            6087  -   Network Lab                 2C-505
> >     1270         6694  -   Condon, Joseph H.           2C-507
> >     1273         5956  **  Stark, Eugene W.            2C-507
> >     -     3445 & 3744  -   Console Room                2C-508
> >     1273         2879  -   Elliott, Ruby Jane          2C-511
> >     1273         7419  -   Bourne, Stephen R.          2C-512
> >     1271         5970  **  Wing, Ms. Jeannette M.      2C-513
> >     1271         6503  -   Baker, Ms. Brenda S.        2C-514
> >     1271         5963  **  Myers, Eugene W.            2C-515
> >     1271         6067  -   Cherry, Ms. Lorinda L.      2C-516
> >     1273         3770  -   Ritchie, Dennis M.          2C-517
> >     1273         6021  -   Kernighan, Brian W.         2C-518
> >     1271         4006  -   Sethi, Ravi                 2C-519
> >     1273         3685  -   Fraser, Alexander G.        2C-520
> >     1271         3520  -   Ossanna, Joseph F., Jr.     2C-521
> >     1271         4862  -   Aho, Alfred V.              2C-522
> >     1271         2394  -   Thompson, Kenneth           2C-523
> >     1271         3878  -   W. Morris, Robert           2C-524
> >     1271         6050  -   Mcllroy, M. Douglas         2C-526
> >     -            6011  -   Library                     2C-553
> >     1270         3302  -   McMahon, Lee E.             2C-555
> >     1270         6694  -   Condon, Joseph H.           2C-556
> >     1273         2761  **  Lyon, T. L.                 2C-557
> >     1273         2761  *   Mitze, Robert W.            2C-557
> >     1273         7775  -   Chesson, Greg L.            2C-558
> >     1273         3968  -   Johnson, Stephen C.         2C-559
> >     127          6490  -   Morgan, Samuel P.           2C-560
> >     1273         2582  -   Pinson, Elliot N.           2C-561
> >     -            6695  -   - Marky, Miss Geraldine A.  2C-562
> >     -            6051  -   - Marky, Miss Geraldine A.  2C-562
> >     -            6491  -   - Chittenden, Ms. Sonia A.  2C-562
> >     -            2583  -   - Chittenden, Ms. Sonia A.  2C-562
> >     -            5401  -   - Logan, Mrs. Vera G.       2C-562
> >     12           5400  -   Prim, Robert C.             2C-563
> >     1274         2059  -   Feldman, Stuart I.          2C-570
> >     1274         6377  -   Lesk, Michael E.            2C-572
> >     1274         4822  -   Brown, W. Stanley           2C-574
> >     -            4823  -   - Jones, Mrs. Cleeva Y.     2C-579
> >     -            3303  -   - Jones, Mrs. Cleeva Y.     2C-579
> >     7133         7685  -   Scrocca, Carmela            2C-579
> >     -            4508  -   - Bittrich, Mrs. Mary E.    2C-579
> >     12           4507  -   Tukey, John W.              2C-580
> >     -            2574  -   - Luciani, Mrs. Dorothy     7E-413
> >     1276         2573  -   Terry, Milton E.            7F-502
> >
> >     *   Intern from Dept. 5432
> >     **  Summer
> >
> >
> > I recall a rough map of the corridor popping up on this list.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers, Ralph.
>
> --
> ---
> Larry McVoy           Retired to fishing          http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat

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* [TUHS] Re: Center 127 directory from 6/17/77
  2022-12-29  0:36     ` Douglas McIlroy
@ 2022-12-29  1:12       ` segaloco via TUHS
  2022-12-30  4:00         ` Mary Ann Horton
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread
From: segaloco via TUHS @ 2022-12-29  1:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Douglas McIlroy; +Cc: Tom Lyon, tuhs

That reminds me of a story from my lab days.  Many years ago worked in a routine environmental lab in receiving at the time and one day we received an errant cooler filled with NORM (low-hazard possibly radioactive soil), complete with yellow and black rad hazard stickers.

Being that we weren't a radiological facility, it had some folks quite perturbed.  After all, they were bench chemists, not rad experts.  Luckily our safety guy had been around the block and then some.  He disappears back to the back warehouse for a little while and comes back with a Geiger counter nobody knew we even had.  He had a quick lesson with folks, waved the wand over the material showing no detectable counts, and everyone went about their day.

The best part of it all was our Geiger counter being "found", we had quite a bit of fun with it later on when a coworker went in for some thyroid work and returned with a throat full of Iodine-131.

Several years later I was on an assignment in Richland, WA and had the privilege of some residency at one of our rad facilities at the time.  Tying it back to TUHS, they were the only lab in our network that still had an old UNIX box lying around from our pre-Windows days (Sun I think).  The technical manager Ken was also quite enthused to show me a bunch of old DEC documentation in a closet.  They've since closed.  I wish I had been around for that, someone made off with all the "for disposal" tech stuff before I caught wind of it :(

- Matt G.

P.S. If you're ever flying over the tri-cities area (central WA), try and scope out Hanford from a distance.  It's a bit haunting to be honest.  The facilities are in a general state of demolition/remediation, then down the way you have the current Columbia River nuclear plant, and a field of who knows what between.  Definitely a sight to see for any radiological enthusiasts, I'll make it on one of those tours someday!

------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, December 28th, 2022 at 4:36 PM, Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:


> Trivia: Morris (eventually Pike) was next door to McIlroy. 2C-525 was
> across the hall; it soon became home to Condon and the cube of uranium
> he kept in his desk to show people that it's not normally dangerous.
> 
> Doug
> 
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 10:18 AM Larry McVoy lm@mcvoy.com wrote:
> 
> > Well this lines up with my records:
> > 
> > slovax$ call ritchie
> > Dennis Ritchie 908-582-3770 (W/bell labs)
> > 
> > Same as the extension listed below.
> > 
> > Dennis was one of the well known people who taught me that if you had
> > done your homework, he was more than willing to talk to you. I had some
> > question about inodes (I think, it was something in the kernel) and we
> > traded emails for a while and then he sent me his phone number saying
> > "this will be faster". Kind of blew my mind at the time.
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 01:30:44PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Tom Lyon, 2C-557, wrote:
> > > 
> > > > More grist from the scanner.
> > > 
> > > Here's the second page ordered by room then name.
> > > 
> > > - I thought quite a few shared, two to an office, but not in this
> > > June??1977 list.
> > > - John Vollaro office is the Network Lab.
> > > - 2C-525 isn't listed; between Bob Morris and Doug McIlroy.
> > > - Joe Condon, Belle's co-creator, had two offices.
> > > - The secretaries shared, along with ???UNIX Documentation Specialist???
> > > Miss C. Scrocca.
> > > - ???Patent Consultant??? S. J. Phillips is only on page 1 so perhaps the
> > > two pages were maintained manually.
> > > 
> > > 12 4232 - Tucker, Frank E. 1A-324
> > > - 4233 - - Verrico, Mrs. B. 1A-326
> > > 1274 6429 - Kaufman, Linda 2C-457
> > > 1274 6429 ** Ryan, Ms. D. R. 2C-457
> > > 1274 6558 - Blue, James L. 2C-459
> > > 1274 2833 - Wamer, Daniel D. 2C-461
> > > 1274 2912 - Schryer, Norman L. 2C-462
> > > - 6087 - Network Machine Room 2C-501
> > > - 3445 & 3744 - UNIX Room 2C-502
> > > 1273 6321 - Vollaro, John R. 2C-505
> > > - 6087 - Network Lab 2C-505
> > > 1270 6694 - Condon, Joseph H. 2C-507
> > > 1273 5956 ** Stark, Eugene W. 2C-507
> > > - 3445 & 3744 - Console Room 2C-508
> > > 1273 2879 - Elliott, Ruby Jane 2C-511
> > > 1273 7419 - Bourne, Stephen R. 2C-512
> > > 1271 5970 ** Wing, Ms. Jeannette M. 2C-513
> > > 1271 6503 - Baker, Ms. Brenda S. 2C-514
> > > 1271 5963 ** Myers, Eugene W. 2C-515
> > > 1271 6067 - Cherry, Ms. Lorinda L. 2C-516
> > > 1273 3770 - Ritchie, Dennis M. 2C-517
> > > 1273 6021 - Kernighan, Brian W. 2C-518
> > > 1271 4006 - Sethi, Ravi 2C-519
> > > 1273 3685 - Fraser, Alexander G. 2C-520
> > > 1271 3520 - Ossanna, Joseph F., Jr. 2C-521
> > > 1271 4862 - Aho, Alfred V. 2C-522
> > > 1271 2394 - Thompson, Kenneth 2C-523
> > > 1271 3878 - W. Morris, Robert 2C-524
> > > 1271 6050 - Mcllroy, M. Douglas 2C-526
> > > - 6011 - Library 2C-553
> > > 1270 3302 - McMahon, Lee E. 2C-555
> > > 1270 6694 - Condon, Joseph H. 2C-556
> > > 1273 2761 ** Lyon, T. L. 2C-557
> > > 1273 2761 * Mitze, Robert W. 2C-557
> > > 1273 7775 - Chesson, Greg L. 2C-558
> > > 1273 3968 - Johnson, Stephen C. 2C-559
> > > 127 6490 - Morgan, Samuel P. 2C-560
> > > 1273 2582 - Pinson, Elliot N. 2C-561
> > > - 6695 - - Marky, Miss Geraldine A. 2C-562
> > > - 6051 - - Marky, Miss Geraldine A. 2C-562
> > > - 6491 - - Chittenden, Ms. Sonia A. 2C-562
> > > - 2583 - - Chittenden, Ms. Sonia A. 2C-562
> > > - 5401 - - Logan, Mrs. Vera G. 2C-562
> > > 12 5400 - Prim, Robert C. 2C-563
> > > 1274 2059 - Feldman, Stuart I. 2C-570
> > > 1274 6377 - Lesk, Michael E. 2C-572
> > > 1274 4822 - Brown, W. Stanley 2C-574
> > > - 4823 - - Jones, Mrs. Cleeva Y. 2C-579
> > > - 3303 - - Jones, Mrs. Cleeva Y. 2C-579
> > > 7133 7685 - Scrocca, Carmela 2C-579
> > > - 4508 - - Bittrich, Mrs. Mary E. 2C-579
> > > 12 4507 - Tukey, John W. 2C-580
> > > - 2574 - - Luciani, Mrs. Dorothy 7E-413
> > > 1276 2573 - Terry, Milton E. 7F-502
> > > 
> > > * Intern from Dept. 5432
> > > ** Summer
> > > 
> > > I recall a rough map of the corridor popping up on this list.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Cheers, Ralph.
> > 
> > --
> > ---
> > Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat

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* [TUHS] Re: Center 127 directory from 6/17/77
  2022-12-29  1:12       ` segaloco via TUHS
@ 2022-12-30  4:00         ` Mary Ann Horton
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Mary Ann Horton @ 2022-12-30  4:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

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I was born in Richland, company town for Hanford. It had the same 
nuclear technology as Chernobyl.

Some would say that explains a lot. :)

Thanks,

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On 12/28/22 17:12, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
> P.S. If you're ever flying over the tri-cities area (central WA), try and scope out Hanford from a distance.  It's a bit haunting to be honest.  The facilities are in a general state of demolition/remediation, then down the way you have the current Columbia River nuclear plant, and a field of who knows what between.  Definitely a sight to see for any radiological enthusiasts, I'll make it on one of those tours someday!

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* [TUHS] Re: Center 127 directory from 6/17/77
@ 2022-12-30 14:43 Douglas McIlroy
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Douglas McIlroy @ 2022-12-30 14:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: TUHS main list

> James Johnston:

>> Yeah, but Rob, where was Fred?  I was there in Acoustics Research (not
>> 127!) then, using R70 for UCDS.

> Rob Pike:

  > Not in (1)127 yet. He was transferred in some time after I arrived. Not
 >  sure quite when. Mid-80s maybe.

> =====

> Early-to-mid 1980s.  ftg was already there when I interviewed in early 1984.

> Norman Wilson

In 1980 Fred was a stalwart of the computer center. There he exhibited
great creativity, including the invention of "quest" for sniffing out
security lapses throughout the BTL computer network. His findings
underpinned the headline claim of the Labs' first computer-security
task force (1982), "It is easy and not very risky to pilfer data from
Bell Labs computers".

Doug

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* [TUHS] Re: Center 127 directory from 6/17/77
@ 2022-12-27 15:10 Norman Wilson
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Norman Wilson @ 2022-12-27 15:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

James Johnston:

> Yeah, but Rob, where was Fred?  I was there in Acoustics Research (not
> 127!) then, using R70 for UCDS.

Rob Pike:

  Not in (1)127 yet. He was transferred in some time after I arrived. Not
  sure quite when. Mid-80s maybe.

=====

Early-to-mid 1980s.  ftg was already there when I interviewed in early 1984.

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON

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