I don't believe the water tower was a one-person job.

Fortunately I have a perfect alibi, being on the other side of the country that day.

-rob

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 6:51 AM Ken Thompson <kenbob@gmail.com> wrote:

fred dumpster dove on the way to the labs.

his prize, beside the cheese awfuls, was

the bowling pins for the 6th floor bowling

alley.

fred was after a german ww2 enigma. he

left requests at two european shops that

were known to occasionally have one.

when one came to light, fred and i split

the price. after years of dwindling hope

for another one showing up, fred an i

flipped a coin to see who owned it. fred

won. before his death he gave  it to me.

and lastly, and secret until now, fred

painted the peter face on the water tower.

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 8:14 AM M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:

Ah, yes. Fred would pick things up at the Keebler Baking factory outlet on his way to work.

We called it the "used cookie store".

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:31 AM Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com> wrote:

fred was certainly a character.

perhaps ken or rob might confirm this, but i recall at least one of the canoe trips demonstrated
the effects of dropping flour sacks onto canoes from a small airplane. (i was not present on any
of these trips, but heard this from grampp.)

he was also responsible for occasionally buying bulk bags of barely digestible cheese crackers
(we called them cheese awfuls) and leaving them in the Unix Room to be eaten.

> On Mar 11, 2021, at 7:06 AM, M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> In all that's been written about the Research Unix players,
> Fred Grampp has gotten far less coverage than he deserves.
> I hope to rectify that with this post, most of which was
> written soon after his death.
>