From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:49:34 +1000 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] /dev/drum In-Reply-To: References: <20180423184122.82A0918C07E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Well, this would never do, of course, as it required us to take down our > Unix box (one of the first in Oz) to run RSX, so my then-boss wrote a > program (in FORTRAN) so we could do it under Unix; said LV-11 actually > spent most of its time plotting biorhythm charts with a program written > by said boss (who also gave me my first taste of grass, and I hated it). One minor detail that I forgot: it was the (mostly male) computer operators who asked us to plot both their biorhythms of their (mostly female) partners, and themselves, to see if they were compatible... I think we (not me) began charging their department per plot, as that thermal paper was pretty pricey... Hey, it was all funny money, after all! This was the 70s/80s, man... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."