[TUHS] Re: Center 127 directory from 6/17/77

[segaloco via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>]

That reminds me of a story from my lab days.  Many years ago worked in a routine environmental lab in receiving at the time and one day we received an errant cooler filled with NORM (low-hazard possibly radioactive soil), complete with yellow and black rad hazard stickers.

Being that we weren't a radiological facility, it had some folks quite perturbed.  After all, they were bench chemists, not rad experts.  Luckily our safety guy had been around the block and then some.  He disappears back to the back warehouse for a little while and comes back with a Geiger counter nobody knew we even had.  He had a quick lesson with folks, waved the wand over the material showing no detectable counts, and everyone went about their day.

The best part of it all was our Geiger counter being "found", we had quite a bit of fun with it later on when a coworker went in for some thyroid work and returned with a throat full of Iodine-131.

Several years later I was on an assignment in Richland, WA and had the privilege of some residency at one of our rad facilities at the time.  Tying it back to TUHS, they were the only lab in our network that still had an old UNIX box lying around from our pre-Windows days (Sun I think).  The technical manager Ken was also quite enthused to show me a bunch of old DEC documentation in a closet.  They've since closed.  I wish I had been around for that, someone made off with all the "for disposal" tech stuff before I caught wind of it :(

- Matt G.

P.S. If you're ever flying over the tri-cities area (central WA), try and scope out Hanford from a distance.  It's a bit haunting to be honest.  The facilities are in a general state of demolition/remediation, then down the way you have the current Columbia River nuclear plant, and a field of who knows what between.  Definitely a sight to see for any radiological enthusiasts, I'll make it on one of those tours someday!

------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, December 28th, 2022 at 4:36 PM, Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:


> Trivia: Morris (eventually Pike) was next door to McIlroy. 2C-525 was
> across the hall; it soon became home to Condon and the cube of uranium
> he kept in his desk to show people that it's not normally dangerous.
> 
> Doug
> 
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 10:18 AM Larry McVoy lm@mcvoy.com wrote:
> 
> > Well this lines up with my records:
> > 
> > slovax$ call ritchie
> > Dennis Ritchie 908-582-3770 (W/bell labs)
> > 
> > Same as the extension listed below.
> > 
> > Dennis was one of the well known people who taught me that if you had
> > done your homework, he was more than willing to talk to you. I had some
> > question about inodes (I think, it was something in the kernel) and we
> > traded emails for a while and then he sent me his phone number saying
> > "this will be faster". Kind of blew my mind at the time.
> > 
> > On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 01:30:44PM +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Tom Lyon, 2C-557, wrote:
> > > 
> > > > More grist from the scanner.
> > > 
> > > Here's the second page ordered by room then name.
> > > 
> > > - I thought quite a few shared, two to an office, but not in this
> > > June??1977 list.
> > > - John Vollaro office is the Network Lab.
> > > - 2C-525 isn't listed; between Bob Morris and Doug McIlroy.
> > > - Joe Condon, Belle's co-creator, had two offices.
> > > - The secretaries shared, along with ???UNIX Documentation Specialist???
> > > Miss C. Scrocca.
> > > - ???Patent Consultant??? S. J. Phillips is only on page 1 so perhaps the
> > > two pages were maintained manually.
> > > 
> > > 12 4232 - Tucker, Frank E. 1A-324
> > > - 4233 - - Verrico, Mrs. B. 1A-326
> > > 1274 6429 - Kaufman, Linda 2C-457
> > > 1274 6429 ** Ryan, Ms. D. R. 2C-457
> > > 1274 6558 - Blue, James L. 2C-459
> > > 1274 2833 - Wamer, Daniel D. 2C-461
> > > 1274 2912 - Schryer, Norman L. 2C-462
> > > - 6087 - Network Machine Room 2C-501
> > > - 3445 & 3744 - UNIX Room 2C-502
> > > 1273 6321 - Vollaro, John R. 2C-505
> > > - 6087 - Network Lab 2C-505
> > > 1270 6694 - Condon, Joseph H. 2C-507
> > > 1273 5956 ** Stark, Eugene W. 2C-507
> > > - 3445 & 3744 - Console Room 2C-508
> > > 1273 2879 - Elliott, Ruby Jane 2C-511
> > > 1273 7419 - Bourne, Stephen R. 2C-512
> > > 1271 5970 ** Wing, Ms. Jeannette M. 2C-513
> > > 1271 6503 - Baker, Ms. Brenda S. 2C-514
> > > 1271 5963 ** Myers, Eugene W. 2C-515
> > > 1271 6067 - Cherry, Ms. Lorinda L. 2C-516
> > > 1273 3770 - Ritchie, Dennis M. 2C-517
> > > 1273 6021 - Kernighan, Brian W. 2C-518
> > > 1271 4006 - Sethi, Ravi 2C-519
> > > 1273 3685 - Fraser, Alexander G. 2C-520
> > > 1271 3520 - Ossanna, Joseph F., Jr. 2C-521
> > > 1271 4862 - Aho, Alfred V. 2C-522
> > > 1271 2394 - Thompson, Kenneth 2C-523
> > > 1271 3878 - W. Morris, Robert 2C-524
> > > 1271 6050 - Mcllroy, M. Douglas 2C-526
> > > - 6011 - Library 2C-553
> > > 1270 3302 - McMahon, Lee E. 2C-555
> > > 1270 6694 - Condon, Joseph H. 2C-556
> > > 1273 2761 ** Lyon, T. L. 2C-557
> > > 1273 2761 * Mitze, Robert W. 2C-557
> > > 1273 7775 - Chesson, Greg L. 2C-558
> > > 1273 3968 - Johnson, Stephen C. 2C-559
> > > 127 6490 - Morgan, Samuel P. 2C-560
> > > 1273 2582 - Pinson, Elliot N. 2C-561
> > > - 6695 - - Marky, Miss Geraldine A. 2C-562
> > > - 6051 - - Marky, Miss Geraldine A. 2C-562
> > > - 6491 - - Chittenden, Ms. Sonia A. 2C-562
> > > - 2583 - - Chittenden, Ms. Sonia A. 2C-562
> > > - 5401 - - Logan, Mrs. Vera G. 2C-562
> > > 12 5400 - Prim, Robert C. 2C-563
> > > 1274 2059 - Feldman, Stuart I. 2C-570
> > > 1274 6377 - Lesk, Michael E. 2C-572
> > > 1274 4822 - Brown, W. Stanley 2C-574
> > > - 4823 - - Jones, Mrs. Cleeva Y. 2C-579
> > > - 3303 - - Jones, Mrs. Cleeva Y. 2C-579
> > > 7133 7685 - Scrocca, Carmela 2C-579
> > > - 4508 - - Bittrich, Mrs. Mary E. 2C-579
> > > 12 4507 - Tukey, John W. 2C-580
> > > - 2574 - - Luciani, Mrs. Dorothy 7E-413
> > > 1276 2573 - Terry, Milton E. 7F-502
> > > 
> > > * Intern from Dept. 5432
> > > ** Summer
> > > 
> > > I recall a rough map of the corridor popping up on this list.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Cheers, Ralph.
> > 
> > --
> > ---
> > Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat