From: rudi.j.blom@gmail.com (Rudi Blom)
Subject: [TUHS] History repeating itself (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp)
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 14:14:34 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMYpm870Yve6CSe14we2gx4zCyz+yJ2Q7=RpWnegM+WKXrvTuw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160801010846.GA15571@mercury.ccil.org>
My 'incident' was around 1985 if I remember correctly. A time people
and border guards started to realise the possible value of what was on
such funny things like diskettes. Also I crossed 'National' borders.
Now that can be tricky even today :-)
On 01/08/2016, John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
>
> I carried an RK05 disk full of proprietary software from West Orange NJ
> to a client in Kansas City back in 1977. Airport security existed, but
> it wasn't as anal it is today. So when I told them they couldn't X-ray
> the disk, it might scramble it, they wanted to do a physical inspection --
> but I told them if they opened the disk they'd get dust in it and ruin it.
> Finally they took my word for it.
>
> When the disk got to the client's, it was completely scrambled anyway.
> I went back home, and next week my partner went out with a stack of 5.25s.
> It took him twenty hours to set up the client's system (I don't remember
> if it was a PDP-8 or a PDP-11), but the job got done.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-01 7:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-31 4:25 Rudi Blom
2016-08-01 1:08 ` John Cowan
2016-08-01 7:14 ` Rudi Blom [this message]
2016-08-01 17:11 ` scj
2016-08-01 18:32 ` Clem Cole
2016-08-02 22:38 ` Dave Horsfall
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-08-03 11:53 Norman Wilson
2016-07-27 20:28 [TUHS] Unix v6 problem with /tmp Mark Longridge
2016-07-27 20:31 ` William Pechter
2016-07-27 20:57 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-27 21:10 ` William Pechter
2016-07-28 0:49 ` Clem cole
2016-07-28 1:03 ` William Pechter
2016-07-28 11:23 ` [TUHS] History repeating itself (was: Unix v6 problem with /tmp) Michael Kjörling
2016-07-28 12:18 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-28 13:57 ` John Cowan
2016-07-30 7:56 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-30 11:41 ` William Cheswick
2016-07-30 23:28 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-30 23:50 ` scj
2016-08-01 11:36 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-30 14:15 ` John Cowan
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