[TUHS] HCR FOOBAR

[TUHS] HCR FOOBAR

[Ron Natalie]

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I was digging around my desk looking for something and I came across a 
quaint piece of UNIX history.   Many years ago HCR gave away “foobars.”  
   They had a gold one, which Rick “Seismo” Adams won and a silver one 
that I have in front of me now.   The ounce of silver was never really 
worth enough for me to want to cash it in (I think Rick promptly did so 
with his ounce of gold).

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[TUHS] Re: HCR FOOBAR

[Charles H Sauer (he/him)]

(From my office wall)
1987 HCR "commemorative plate" 
https://technologists.com/photos/1987/fullsize/1987ThompsonRitchie.jpg
1991 Dell SVR4 (& other) plaque 
https://technologists.com/photos/1991/sm1991DellQ1.jpg
1991 486 die photo https://technologists.com/photos/1991/sm1991Intel486.jpg

On 10/8/2023 5:37 PM, Ron Natalie wrote:
> I was digging around my desk looking for something and I came across a 
> quaint piece of UNIX history.   Many years ago HCR gave away “foobars.” 
>     They had a gold one, which Rick “Seismo” Adams won and a silver one 
> that I have in front of me now.   The ounce of silver was never really 
> worth enough for me to want to cash it in (I think Rick promptly did so 
> with his ounce of gold).
> 

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[TUHS] Re: HCR FOOBAR

[Henry Mensch]

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No photos? I'd like to see this...

- Henry

On October 8, 2023 18:37:43 "Ron Natalie" <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
> I was digging around my desk looking for something and I came across a quaint piece of UNIX history.   Many years ago HCR gave away “foobars.”    They had a gold one, which Rick “Seismo” Adams won and a silver one that I have in front of me now.   The ounce of silver was never really worth enough for me to want to cash it in (I think Rick promptly did so with his ounce of gold).


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[TUHS] Re: HCR FOOBAR

[Ron Natalie]

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Really doesn’t look like much, just a bar.    THey had put “HCR FOOBAR” 
on the thing with letraset or something but that all flaked off   over 
the years.



------ Original Message ------
From "Henry Mensch" <henry@henare.com>
To "Ron Natalie" <ron@ronnatalie.com>; "TUHS main list" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Date 10/9/23, 5:48:47 AM
Subject Re: [TUHS] HCR FOOBAR

>No photos? I'd like to see this...
>
>- Henry
>
>On October 8, 2023 18:37:43 "Ron Natalie" <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
>
>>I was digging around my desk looking for something and I came across a 
>>quaint piece of UNIX history.   Many years ago HCR gave away 
>>“foobars.”    They had a gold one, which Rick “Seismo” Adams won and a 
>>silver one that I have in front of me now.   The ounce of silver was 
>>never really worth enough for me to want to cash it in (I think Rick 
>>promptly did so with his ounce of gold).
>>
>

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