If you enjoyed that, try this,
<https://annex.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/ladle/> apparently done in 1940.

Ron and Bob were something else. I recall Bob "running for DMTS" by handing
out dimes in the Murray Hill cafeteria.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:28 PM Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net> wrote:

> I remember Ron! He was quite a character. And I remember festoon.
>
> Was it he, or Bob Flandrena, that gave us the holiday poetical and
> phonetical treat:
>
>     Tweeze Denied Beef Workers Isthmus
>
> (Say it out loud fast, with a pause in the middle of "Workers", to get it).
>
> I think I have it on paper somewhere, but no soft copy.
>
>     Mary Ann
> On 3/20/20 1:13 PM, Ed Bradford wrote:
>
> When I left BTL in 1983, I made a tar tape. A number of years later I
> translated the tape into a file. Only recently have I wandered through it.
>
> I don't know how many people remember Ron Hardin in the Columbus BTL
> location. He was one of the smartest guys I ever met. There are lot of Ron
> Hardin stories. One of his creations (as far as I know he authored it) was
> a program to create Memorandums For File -- technical memorandums. My tar
> tape scooped up festoon. To this day it compiles and runs happily on
> Windows 10. It was written in 1978 or thereabouts. Here is an example
> output:
>
> bin$ festoon.exe .TL No Worthynesses .AU "C. C. Festoon" CCF Headquarters
> 1584734291 .AS A restriction had been being amicated by a convenience at
> the inclusion. .AE .MT "MEMORANDUM FOR COAT LOCKER" .hy 1 On this occasion,
> no team responsibilities could have polyesced a renewed emphasis. A
> friction had penated an activation. At the present moment in time, an undue
> number of good progresses being collected together with the populations
> were being proportionately fideated by the fact that there was a data
> stream which was transenniesced by an issuance being joined together with
> these team re sponsibilities, because natural basises have been veriating a
> partitioning. The supplementary work should be conclusively quinquepolyated
> by a well defined interfacing. A sophisticatedness by a schedule is
> operated by a nature in conflict with a correspondence under some serious
> discussi ons. It is within the realm of possibility that the effectiveness
> had vicfacesced a schedule, but there was not a necessary background
> information which is being testesced by a strong interest, and a
> statistical accuracy was tempoesced by the preparation. It should be noted
> that a joint partnership very repeatedly aidioated this publication of a
> centralized organization. Due to the fact that there is a simplification
> which simply enniesced a process, a new technology is fluxesced from
> monorogatities. It is of the utmost importance that an insurance could be
> putated by an assumption. A major advance centered about a deficiency
> octocessates an important outcome. .P An effectation would extramicroate to
> the situation. A complete revision gravated a direction. Inasmuch as there
> was not a potential usefulness that cedeates by the timely delivery, a
> consideration centered around a technique was monofortated by an
> integration: .BL .LI There is a not unclear meterdom which had risiesced an
> occasion. .LE .P A clamstress of this enclosedness is cludescing the
> hemidormity. .P To arrive at an approximation, a large quantity had been
> chromated by a strong feeling. Moreover, that idea sharing was lusated by a
> current proposal. Anytime that the final outcomes had been very firmly
> unpathesced by not unphilaible reasonable compromises, no serious concerns
> might be being sacrated by internal establishments for the basic objectives
> in back of a full utili zation. .P As a consequence of the fact that a
> total effect might vacate an easily situational beneficial assistance, the
> apparent provisioning being effectuated by a continuing difference can have
> protenesced a realization of an underly ing purpose. A different doubtful
> important outcome is cludated by a capkin. A rationale had fortated
> attachments. Moreover, this assumption had nilcoresced the continuing
> study. .P .H 1 "An Easily Added Basic Assumption Being Joined Together With
> A Concept Stage" There is not an impediment which neoated a restriction,
> therefore. A couple utilizations could morsate a great similarity at
> considerable difficulties, but an input is primescing the concept
> activities, and a growing importance was hemicisesced by that beneficial
> assistance. In the same connection, these extremenesses are rather usefully
> ultralucesced by directions. .SG .NS 0 C. R. Glitch S. A. Hobble R. S. Limn
> M. Shayegan
> .NE
>
> Ed Bradford, Ph.D. Physics, retired from IBM
> BTL 1976-1983
>
> --
> Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
>   Cicero
>
>