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From: Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com>
To: "John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Coastal cultures, collaboration, creativity and Sun vs DEC.
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 14:41:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E44F8B08-1D22-4DF2-84E0-E0AD5DE216F1@humeweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC0cEp8t5OP4jxbvGJCbhZeNcUEPuj4UbP8kvKtsWCR5eS_K9w@mail.gmail.com>

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i would add the general atmosphere of the Unix room, especially the very heavy mobile hung from
the ceiling for a while (until someone noticed the cable supporting it was visibly stretching).

also the bowling alley (the corridor that rob, ken, denis, doug and my offices were on) — the pins
were under the printer table at the end. i also recall the time the bowling ball got away from the
Unix room rolling down the main corridor towards a group of visitors led by peter weinberger.
luckily, dave presotto grabbed the ball before anyone got hurt (but it was close).

i would also mention labscam; its not often we see a prank involving rob pike, Penn and a Noble Prize winner.

> On Jan 11, 2022, at 2:17 PM, John P. Linderman <jpl.jpl@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 3:45 PM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com <mailto:robpike@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> Similar. Everyone at Bell Labs was so proper.  (Except Ken, of course. Ken is sui generis, and a Californian).
> 
> Perhaps (probably maybe) I misunderstand. There was nothing "proper" about the Peter face on the water tower, or lock-picking a boot to move it to a patrol car, of Scott Knaur wandering the halls in a Darth Vader costume, or Jellicat wearing a Cats costume, or a thousand other examples. There was a lot of playfulness in the Labs (at least in the early days), and I think it was wonderful. 


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  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-11 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-11 18:36 Dan Cross
2022-01-11 18:45 ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-11 18:50 ` John Floren
2022-01-11 19:34 ` John Cowan
2022-01-11 20:17   ` Rob Pike
2022-01-11 20:25     ` George Michaelson
2022-01-11 20:44       ` Rob Pike
2022-01-11 20:57         ` Jon Steinhart
2022-01-11 22:17         ` John P. Linderman
2022-01-11 22:41           ` Andrew Hume [this message]
2022-01-12  0:15             ` Rob Pike
2022-01-11 22:14       ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-13 15:44     ` Dan Cross
2022-01-12 23:15   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-01-13  1:34     ` Adam Thornton
2022-01-13 15:37   ` Dan Cross
2022-01-13 16:32   ` Bakul Shah
2022-01-13 16:48     ` Richard Salz
2022-01-13 17:20       ` Bakul Shah
2022-01-13 19:56         ` John Cowan
2022-01-12  3:38 Douglas McIlroy

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