Re: [TUHS] Fred Grampp

[M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>]

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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.
> >
>
>

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