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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Teletype simulator?
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 23:54:52 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1603252347230.15730@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea0588615981ed2e70af1ae15622fcb5.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com>

On Thu, 24 Mar 2016, scj at yaccman.com wrote:

> The other TTY story that surfaced happened to Dennis.  He had one of the 
> last model 37's as his home terminal, and it was getting quirky.  The 
> vibration of the mechanism occasionally caused a blank space to be 
> generated that he hadn't typed.  In those days, it was common to delete 
> the .o files after compiling because disc space was precious.  So Dennis 
> typed "rm *.o" and Unix replied ".o not found".

Ah; an oldie but a goodie...  And who hasn't done that?  To this day, I 
still check the "rm ..." command before hitting CR, 30 or so years later.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-25 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-24 13:19 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-24 14:23 ` Random832
2016-03-24 16:41   ` Jacob Goense
2016-03-24 14:28 ` Lawrence Stewart
2016-03-25 21:27   ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-03-25 21:56     ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-03-28 12:04       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-03-24 14:40 ` George Ross
2016-03-24 15:29   ` Random832
2016-03-24 15:32   ` John Cowan
2016-03-24 16:15   ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-03-24 20:29     ` scj
2016-03-25 12:54       ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2016-03-26 21:04       ` Ronald Natalie
2016-03-24 19:56 ` scj
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-03-24 20:12 Norman Wilson
2016-03-24 20:24 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-03-24 20:36 ` scj
2016-03-24 13:36 Doug McIlroy
2016-03-23 19:28 [TUHS] PDP-7 Unix: The B compiler works Warren Toomey
2016-03-24  9:01 ` [TUHS] Teletype simulator? Warren Toomey
2016-03-24 10:21   ` Pierre DAVID
2016-03-24 11:00     ` Clem cole
2016-03-24 11:01       ` Clem cole
2016-03-24 21:39       ` Clem Cole
2016-03-25  3:18         ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-03-25  3:57           ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-25 20:13             ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-03-24 16:37   ` Jacob Goense
2016-03-25  2:18   ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-25  3:43     ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-25  5:59     ` Jacob Goense

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