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From: William Cheswick <ches@cheswick.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Fred Grampp
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 08:47:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D8E40D40-FA8B-4F61-BCA4-EBCD3C6FA58A@cheswick.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiWYK1-LSVL6zOq92h6GE2eWZMJo0+0hu1=Rio17FdBVog@mail.gmail.com>



> On Mar 15, 2021, at 9:12 PM, M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> 
> His father ("Pops") retired to Drayton Island in the St Johns River
> about 60 miles south of Jacksonville.
> Fred often visited him, driving the 19-hour trip in one stint.

Fred was a big fan of opera.  He’d play the Ring going to see his parents.  Said he get there in
2.5 operas.  That’s 400 miles/opera, or maybe 100 MPH.  This is certainly faster than
Doug’s number.  I think Fred said he went 90 MPH, which is totally consistent with his personality.

ches



  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-16 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-15 22:46 Brian Walden
2021-03-16  1:12 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-16 12:47   ` William Cheswick [this message]
2021-03-17  3:46 ` Tomasz Rola
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-03-11 23:35 Norman Wilson
2021-03-11 23:42 ` Clem Cole
2021-03-12 13:34   ` William Cheswick
2021-03-12 13:30 ` William Cheswick
2021-03-11 21:23 Norman Wilson
2021-03-11 21:39 ` William Cheswick
2021-03-11 15:06 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-11 15:31 ` Andrew Hume
2021-03-11 16:13   ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-11 19:50     ` Ken Thompson
2021-03-11 20:06       ` Anthony Martin
2021-03-11 20:30       ` Rob Pike
2021-03-11 22:00         ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-11 21:48 ` Brantley Coile

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