From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 23:54:52 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Teletype simulator? In-Reply-To: References: <201603241440.u2OEeO9p012595@farg.inf.ed.ac.uk> <56F412B5.4010408@mhorton.net> Message-ID: 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."