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[157.131.252.221]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e3sm430059pjs.15.2019.10.28.15.09.53 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:09:53 -0700 (PDT) To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: <1571611430.28265.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> From: Jon Forrest Message-ID: <91571786-c448-c7d9-995f-4bf7c434a29e@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:09:53 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian W. Kernighan is now out 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" On 10/28/19 2:41 PM, Mary Ann Horton wrote: > Without telling the actual stories here, one involves a monkey picture > pasted onto a Bell Labs badge, the other is about an MTS who was late to > a meeting because she was grepping her apartment for her keys. I've told > these stories often, and they get a good laugh. I don't know what happened at Bell Labs but I can tell a similar story about what happened at Ford Aerospace, which was a very early commercial Unix user (e.g. PWB in 1978). Ford had secure entry points into the buildings, where you would go into a pod that's similar to what you go though in airports these days. While you were in the pod, you were supposed to show your badge to a camera which was being monitored by a security person sitting nearby. Most of these security people were humorless and seemed to enjoy this task. One of the people in my group was real joker. So, one day he decided to paste a piece of a brown paper bag over his picture on his badge. Along with this, he put a brown paper bag over his head, and went into the security pod. The reaction of the security person was classic. It took him a little while to overcome the fact that the badge matched what he was seeing, and that he needed to investigate further. Jon