From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 04:19:09 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Date madness In-Reply-To: References: <20171213171625.6FB1418C094@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <201712132046.vBDKkPbk002217@freefriends.org> Message-ID: 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."