From: "Ron Natalie" <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: "John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com>,
"Phil Budne" <phil@ultimate.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Reaction to the 3B2 at Bell Labs
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 16:11:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <em31cf1b57-00bb-4746-b2ac-4ff34db666af@c62ead55.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC0cEp_ZGzd5gE+yNSsitSO3RgSi42KGhYXRVrhj2TWzTLVo0A@mail.gmail.com>
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>. But everyone knew what the J stood for. The 3B2 served as a doorstop.
Shades of the jerq terminal. The J prefix persiste in the code long
after the nickname was quashed.
Being in charge of the Rutgers computer center, we were gifted a lot of
ATT hardware. We had one 3B20 (now that was a pure piece of phone
equipment, you shut it down by turning a switch inside and holding the
button down until it twanged. Just like putting an old 303 modem into
loop back). We also got three 3B5's (noted for the one installed in
the New Brunswick computing room that got completely drenched when a
pipe burst and kept on running) and countless of the 3B2s. I chortled
in that unless you were logged in as root, you couldn't work the power
switch. Yanking the cord out of the wall was still and option.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-27 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-26 18:46 [TUHS] " Seth Morabito
2022-11-26 19:18 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-11-26 20:04 ` Seth Morabito
2022-11-26 20:42 ` Rob Pike
2022-11-26 21:46 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-26 23:00 ` Marc Donner
2022-11-26 23:23 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-26 23:47 ` Dan Cross
2022-11-27 0:17 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-27 4:43 ` Phil Budne
2022-11-27 14:51 ` John P. Linderman
2022-11-27 15:29 ` arnold
2022-11-27 16:11 ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2022-11-27 16:59 ` Warner Losh
2022-11-27 18:59 ` arnold
2022-11-27 20:45 ` Rob Pike
2022-11-28 18:53 ` William Corcoran
2022-11-28 20:59 ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-11-28 22:33 ` ron minnich
2022-11-28 22:43 ` Marc Donner
2022-11-29 1:49 ` Alan Glasser
2022-12-01 6:10 ` Kevin Bowling
2022-12-01 8:30 ` Andrew Hume
2022-12-01 8:53 ` arnold
2022-12-01 9:19 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2022-12-01 12:25 ` Brad Spencer
2022-12-01 10:00 ` Andrew Hume
2022-12-01 10:17 ` arnold
2022-11-27 14:53 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-26 19:21 ` Douglas McIlroy
2022-11-29 11:33 ` alan
2022-11-30 2:50 ` Mary Ann Horton
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