[TUHS] Re: the Courier font family and nroff history

[Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>]

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Don't forget the Imagen's

    Where is the paper tray?

in a mechanical exasperated intonation.

-rob


On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 4:08 AM Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org> wrote:

> Bill Cheswick:
>
> >The Unix room text-to-speech device used to announce:
> >
> >"Ding ding ding.  Please add goo.  This doesn’t happen very often."
>
> Since we're all nerds here, I feel compelled to correct this.
>
> The actual announcement was
>
>     Help! Please add goo!
>
> The suffix was applied to a different message:
>
>     Please add toner.  You won't have to very often.
>
> `Goo' was some sort of pre-mix that needed frequent topping up.
> Hence `you won't have to very often,' to remind you which was which.
>
> Other messages included
>
>    Please add paper.
>    Printer check lamp is lit.  What do you want to do about it?
>    Service check lamp is lit.  You're in big trouble now!
>
> All these messages were designed by Tom Killian, who wrote the
> local code that controlled the 202.
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
>

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