From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Date madness
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 04:19:09 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1712160409020.92288@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VRxQYpAFxzhy3DbXHafo9VAwzhKxGZfVjMpUUm9zE=eSA@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 15 Dec 2017, Paul Winalski wrote:
> After the 11/730 came out, Dick Hustvedt (lead VMS architect and
> engineer) and Stan Rabinowitz put together an elaborate April fool's
> hack. On April 1, the 11/730 in the VMS group's machine room had next
> to it a pedestal with a sundial on it and a ribbon cable leading into
> the 11/730, with sales brochures placed next to it. The sales
> brochures announced the SD730 Fixed Head Solar Horologue, a sundial
> with a photocell for detecting noon that could be used to
> automatically set the 11/730's time-of-day clock. The thing actually
> worked--it was connected via a UNIBUS real-time device controller, and
> Hustvedt had written a VMS device driver for it.
Cripes; I remember that story! Wasn't there a GIF of the brochure somewhere?
Ah, here's a reference:
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=76256&cid=6805264
along with the dreaded microfortnights...
(Sad what happened to Dick.)
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-13 17:16 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 18:53 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-12-13 20:46 ` arnold
2017-12-15 16:41 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-15 17:19 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-12-16 15:45 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-16 3:39 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-16 3:45 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-12-17 1:43 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-14 3:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-14 3:13 ` Warner Losh
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-12-16 10:50 Doug McIlroy
2017-12-16 16:11 ` Random832
2017-12-16 17:11 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-12-13 22:16 Norman Wilson
2017-12-14 0:24 ` Chris Torek
2017-12-17 16:20 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-17 18:53 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2017-12-17 20:07 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-13 20:22 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 19:12 Doug McIlroy
2017-12-14 3:07 ` Random832
2017-12-15 3:04 ` Random832
2017-12-13 16:31 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 16:50 ` arnold
2017-12-13 16:08 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-13 16:23 ` arnold
2017-12-13 15:56 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 18:31 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 18:01 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 18:21 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-13 15:07 ` Random832
2017-12-13 17:00 ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-13 17:18 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-13 18:02 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-12-13 15:39 ` Wolfgang Helbig
2017-12-14 0:57 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-14 14:09 ` William Cheswick
2017-12-17 16:19 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-17 16:33 ` William Cheswick
2017-12-17 17:54 ` Random832
2017-12-17 22:15 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-17 22:54 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-12-16 18:12 ` Wolfgang Helbig
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