From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 5829fb03 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:10:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 1AF52A17E3; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:10:55 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8BB3A17C2; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:10:25 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id DF2EA9EE10; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:10:22 +1000 (AEST) Received: from viclamta40p.bpe.bigpond.com (viclamta40p.bpe.bigpond.com [203.38.21.104]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 180679EE0F for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:10:21 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtp.telstra.com ([10.10.26.4]) by viclafep40p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au with ESMTP id <20180620111019.GNTF14014.viclafep40p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au@smtp.telstra.com> for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:10:19 +1000 X-RG-Spam: Unknown X-RazorGate-Vade-Verdict: clean 0 X-RazorGate-Vade-Classification: clean X-RazorGate-Vade: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedtiedrtddvgdeffecutefuodetggdotefrodftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfupfevtfgpvffgnffuvfftteenuceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucenucfjughrpeffhffvufgjkfhffgggtgesthdttddttdervdenucfhrhhomhepffgrvhgvucfjohhrshhfrghllhcuoegurghvvgeshhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgqeenucfkphepuddutddrudeguddrudelfedrvdeffeenucfrrghrrghmpehhvghloheprghnvghurhhinhdrhhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgpdhinhgvthepuddutddrudeguddrudelfedrvdeffedpmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpeeouggrvhgvsehhohhrshhfrghllhdrohhrgheqpdhrtghpthhtohepoehtuhhhshesthhuhhhsrdhorhhgqeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedt X-RG-VS-CLASS: clean Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (110.141.193.233) by smtp.telstra.com (9.0.019.26-1) id 5B04237103AFD157 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:10:19 +1000 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w5KBAILW058822 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:10:18 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id w5KBAINv058819 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:10:18 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 21:10:18 +1000 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: <201806161258.w5GCwNDN014646@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Message-ID: References: <201806161258.w5GCwNDN014646@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.999 (BSF 260 2018-02-26) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [TUHS] core X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Sat, 16 Jun 2018, Doug McIlroy wrote: >> jay forrester first described an invention called core memory in a lab >> notebook 69 years ago today. > > Core memory wiped out competing technologies (Williams tube [...] Ah, the Williams tube. Was that not the one where women clerks (they weren't called programmers) wearing nylon stockings were not allowed anywhere near them, because of the static zaps thus generated? Or was that yet another urban myth that appears to be polluting my history file? How said women were determined to be wearing nylons and thus banned, well. I have no idea... Hell, even a popular computer weekly in the 80s used to joke that "software" was a female computer programmer; I'm sure that Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (USN retd, decd) would've had a few words to say about that sexism... -- Dave