From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: /usr/mdec
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 08:11:36 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2211220809100.24771@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221121184348.33A7118C087@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On Mon, 21 Nov 2022, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > MAINDEC was certainly on all of their standalone diagnostic media
>
> Actually, it was the name for all their diagnostics (usually
> stand-alone), dating back to the paper tape days - when that was the
> only form they were distributed in. So it makes sense that it's a short
> form of 'MAINDEC'.
Yep. We had heaps of paper tape diags (along with a tape and an RK-05)
with "MAINDEC" on the label, so it was just as well that we had a PC-11
(the only one on campus)...
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-21 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-21 18:43 Noel Chiappa
2022-11-21 21:11 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
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2022-11-27 2:22 Rudi Blom
2022-11-21 3:11 [TUHS] /usr/mdec Norman Wilson
2022-11-21 4:25 ` [TUHS] /usr/mdec Dave Horsfall
2022-11-21 9:56 ` Angelo Papenhoff
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