From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FROM,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RDNS_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: (qmail 29459 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2020 00:29:37 -0000 Received-SPF: pass (minnie.tuhs.org: domain of minnie.tuhs.org designates 45.79.103.53 as permitted sender) receiver=inbox.vuxu.org; client-ip=45.79.103.53 envelope-from= Received: from unknown (HELO minnie.tuhs.org) (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTP; 21 Mar 2020 00:29:37 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6B9CF9D55C; Sat, 21 Mar 2020 10:29:35 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B8129D529; Sat, 21 Mar 2020 10:29:12 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key; unprotected) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="gV3BOd2o"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 9CA7E9D529; Sat, 21 Mar 2020 10:29:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-vs1-f41.google.com (mail-vs1-f41.google.com [209.85.217.41]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 11BE79CD87 for ; Sat, 21 Mar 2020 10:29:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-vs1-f41.google.com with SMTP id y138so5208516vsy.0 for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:29:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=L+hiUmDS+W2k35TwubN2LU4IMYE1fD4h02XWbtmrnC8=; b=gV3BOd2osPUxJrnNkR4H+wZOMuFNGhspevfMFMJlgPBSXEblOhllNTQ/TA60BH7CMZ Pe0GZldxDEROAGQvFiOfJrZDXlJychHEPV4of2uQ6c0AdAlKz+6ZnpUyEll2AphxTKuQ uv4gjnQ3dB+Xq3eC4ljoBpCYyg399FneWU+21Pdqu2dPnIuHAwEIOf6KrLBVMx0LkK8Q FyQpVWKJSAZrlVYvM8DhZokKdoBCqgRtaoGHtctYvLCmOelE/h2nGj7JBbZLGIqkztSr r4wHHKGpmKBg+KDWLjLPitIu1MnQgsL3ovLZL9AA3l7EJ/uuVCpHlEiyZWynqOLoh5Ga ybNg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=L+hiUmDS+W2k35TwubN2LU4IMYE1fD4h02XWbtmrnC8=; b=jO4p+8a4Ife/BXcsNwg1A/6JWyXc0ToJFrHNSqx+TWp51oTay/ZiVb4Wb20DEJRy/s 1Mx0cL5UeHvoiOzUnb58G6wow4iseO52BEpBdb6clchZO9LmiRNxU3zAXat/ZhlpI37d 4JvmFPdhir8p/KkToBnmQ7solNVd3AoTzFAdOIv0t2YNm7c8O5X2q2cAR3ptyT0cUE/x uyj2hAD424Gv5rZEGwke/TEP8pNOw5uomyIMBcIhJK7PRvl8yNz9hJxKIRdht1rnrAti MWHR1WY/5+Y+eMGFJPtBDwqjWRN0fE5nJNQoHDF5CmEkzRmMvKnvwXg5+fsPAKLKcwgy NFeg== X-Gm-Message-State: ANhLgQ3Zvu8riSr37RBvEmWPYmQJqwY8SSY60kXw+Aa9uYKpa2ZVcaD2 CfLfUqyyqH5AIlILamHpG27cMl8iUKry9Ec141A= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADFU+vsiD/DUkNmPxkgdHxCDQ1b7giRhsPVzykYeJMEKlYtpkIET2zLAGXoUUmjnhTrJBLoYSnXoueQp6Kx5buBYP9U= X-Received: by 2002:a67:69d8:: with SMTP id e207mr8848896vsc.141.1584750548939; Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:29:08 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5eef9b07-7f22-d9c9-78a3-bdb78379cc76@mhorton.net> In-Reply-To: From: Rob Pike Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 11:28:57 +1100 Message-ID: To: "John P. Linderman" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [TUHS] I made a tar tape X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Unix Heritage Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Anemometer cur chiffon. See if that rings any bells. -rob On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 11:17 AM John P. Linderman wrot= e: > > If you enjoyed that, try this, apparently done in 1940. > > Ron and Bob were something else. I recall Bob "running for DMTS" by handi= ng out dimes in the Murray Hill cafeteria. > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 5:28 PM Mary Ann Horton wrote: >> >> I remember Ron! He was quite a character. And I remember festoon. >> >> Was it he, or Bob Flandrena, that gave us the holiday poetical and phone= tical treat: >> >> Tweeze Denied Beef Workers Isthmus >> >> (Say it out loud fast, with a pause in the middle of "Workers", to get i= t). >> >> I think I have it on paper somewhere, but no soft copy. >> >> Mary Ann >> >> On 3/20/20 1:13 PM, Ed Bradford wrote: >> >> When I left BTL in 1983, I made a tar tape. A number of years later I tr= anslated the tape into a file. Only recently have I wandered through it. >> >> I don't know how many people remember Ron Hardin in the Columbus BTL loc= ation. He was one of the smartest guys I ever met. There are lot of Ron Har= din stories. One of his creations (as far as I know he authored it) was a p= rogram to create Memorandums For File -- technical memorandums. My tar tape= scooped up festoon. To this day it compiles and runs happily on Windows 10= . It was written in 1978 or thereabouts. Here is an example output: >> >> bin$ festoon.exe .TL No Worthynesses .AU "C. C. Festoon" CCF Headquarter= s 1584734291 .AS A restriction had been being amicated by a convenience at = the inclusion. .AE .MT "MEMORANDUM FOR COAT LOCKER" .hy 1 On this occasion,= no team responsibilities could have polyesced a renewed emphasis. A fricti= on had penated an activation. At the present moment in time, an undue numbe= r of good progresses being collected together with the populations were bei= ng proportionately fideated by the fact that there was a data stream which = was transenniesced by an issuance being joined together with these team re = sponsibilities, because natural basises have been veriating a partitioning.= The supplementary work should be conclusively quinquepolyated by a well de= fined interfacing. A sophisticatedness by a schedule is operated by a natur= e in conflict with a correspondence under some serious discussi ons. It is = within the realm of possibility that the effectiveness had vicfacesced a sc= hedule, but there was not a necessary background information which is being= testesced by a strong interest, and a statistical accuracy was tempoesced = by the preparation. It should be noted that a joint partnership very repeat= edly aidioated this publication of a centralized organization. Due to the f= act that there is a simplification which simply enniesced a process, a new = technology is fluxesced from monorogatities. It is of the utmost importance= that an insurance could be putated by an assumption. A major advance cente= red about a deficiency octocessates an important outcome. .P An effectation= would extramicroate to the situation. A complete revision gravated a direc= tion. Inasmuch as there was not a potential usefulness that cedeates by the= timely delivery, a consideration centered around a technique was monoforta= ted by an integration: .BL .LI There is a not unclear meterdom which had ri= siesced an occasion. .LE .P A clamstress of this enclosedness is cludescing= the hemidormity. .P To arrive at an approximation, a large quantity had be= en chromated by a strong feeling. Moreover, that idea sharing was lusated b= y a current proposal. Anytime that the final outcomes had been very firmly = unpathesced by not unphilaible reasonable compromises, no serious concerns = might be being sacrated by internal establishments for the basic objectives= in back of a full utili zation. .P As a consequence of the fact that a tot= al effect might vacate an easily situational beneficial assistance, the app= arent provisioning being effectuated by a continuing difference can have pr= otenesced a realization of an underly ing purpose. A different doubtful imp= ortant outcome is cludated by a capkin. A rationale had fortated attachment= s. Moreover, this assumption had nilcoresced the continuing study. .P .H 1 = "An Easily Added Basic Assumption Being Joined Together With A Concept Stag= e" There is not an impediment which neoated a restriction, therefore. A cou= ple utilizations could morsate a great similarity at considerable difficult= ies, but an input is primescing the concept activities, and a growing impor= tance was hemicisesced by that beneficial assistance. In the same connectio= n, these extremenesses are rather usefully ultralucesced by directions. .SG= .NS 0 C. R. Glitch S. A. Hobble R. S. Limn M. Shayegan >> .NE >> >> Ed Bradford, Ph.D. Physics, retired from IBM >> BTL 1976-1983 >> >> -- >> Advice is judged by results, not by intentions. >> Cicero >>