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From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: Ken Thompson <kenbob@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Fred Grampp
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:06:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YEp4YL5smhj78OvB@alice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMP=X_k57eoRqGHaA1JW4HQJ4OM0xB9EV525EV4aBg0GYSe2sw@mail.gmail.com>

Ken Thompson <kenbob@gmail.com> once said:
> and lastly, and secret until now, fred
> painted the peter face on the water tower.

At long last!

Earlier hints from research!gerard:

"We do know that the paint itself was vouchered a few days
later as a business expense by Fred Grampp, on behalf of a
pseudo-employee G.R. (Grace) Emlin (login: gremlin), who had
at that time already been entered successfully into most
official databases at Bell Labs, and regularly received mail
at her mailbox at 2C-501 (the Unix room)."

https://spinroot.com/pico/pjw.html

  Anthony

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-11 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
2021-03-11 20:30       ` Rob Pike
2021-03-11 22:00         ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-11 21:48 ` Brantley Coile
2021-03-11 21:23 Norman Wilson
2021-03-11 21:39 ` William Cheswick
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
2021-03-15 22:46 Brian Walden
2021-03-16  1:12 ` M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-16 12:47   ` William Cheswick
2021-03-17  3:46 ` Tomasz Rola

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