From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com (A. P. Garcia) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 14:44:23 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] terminal - just for fun In-Reply-To: <668acfc4769a91693e47afd7cd878e81.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> References: <201408060256.s762u7Ni007007@coolidge.cs.dartmouth.edu> <201408060645.s766jV9p004639@freefriends.org> <20140806132257.GA23663@mercury.ccil.org> <20140806163700.GA29307@mercury.ccil.org> <668acfc4769a91693e47afd7cd878e81.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> Message-ID: On Aug 6, 2014 12:54 PM, wrote: > > While on this thread, I have to share my favorite Model 37 TYY story. > > The Model 37 was a mechanical marvel--under the hood it was filled with > levers and cams and all manner of strange mechanisms. Dennis Ritchie had > one at home long after most of the rest of us had moved on to glass > teletypes. It mostly worked, although as it aged the mechanical systems > got a bit rickety and had a tendency to insert an extra blank character > into the line you were typing, especially if you were typing fast. > > The last straw for Dennis happened late one evening when he was doing the > usual housekeeping after compiling a large program: > rm *.o > (after all, disc space was very limited in those days) and he got back the > message: > .o not found ouch. Another Model 37 classic: "values of beta will give rise to dom!" [ http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/odd.html] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: