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."
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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
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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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