Re: [TUHS] Sad News - we last two wonderful people in the past few weeks.

[Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>]

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Knowing Jack, I think I safely say he would have been amused by the
different reactions.  Just remember when he wrote that I do not think there
was a mikyd’s anywhere close to Maynard.  Jack was a child of the Bronx
which made his love of the outdoors all the more real.  Maynard (Mare
Assabet) really was desolate in comparison.

On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 6:14 AM Dr Iain Maoileoin <
iain@csp-partnership.co.uk> wrote:

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> On 9 Apr 2022, at 17:23, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 5:29 AM Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
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>> If I recall there was a GT40 up on the fourth floor of UMCP's CS
>> building.   I don't remember spacewar, but there was a luner lander game
>> where you tried to land near the lunar McDonalds (if you crashed in to
>> it, it chided you for destroying the only McDonalds on the moon).
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>> That's Jack's Moonlander.
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> It is OK for you Americans.  We ran the GT40 in Scotland about 1974 (2nd
> year undergrad).
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> When the astronaut got out and said “a big mac to go”  we had absolutely
> no idea what he was talking about!
> “a big mac” meant nothing and “to go” was just bad grammar.  Worse grammar
> than the split infinitives in star trek.
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> I am sure we did not have a Macdonalds in Scotland at that time.  We did
> have KFC under the uni - many a late-night chew while solving programming
> problems ….
> But Macdonalds?  They were well into the 80s…...
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> It was years later before any of us actually understood what was being
> said, but yes, a great way to spend debugging hours in the early hours of
> the morning.
> I can only just remember the use of the light pen - was that for thrust?
> I have no recollection of any keyboard inputs.
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> Iain
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