22 Oct
2002
22 Oct
'02
5:55 p.m.
Well, I guess you aren't an LMS or Southern fan. :)
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
I'm sorry but you guys are weird. Unless required by some @!@#$! net
How long have you been reading this list? Most people recognise we're
weird in about 2 minutes flat :-)
system driven by paranoid corporate business
concerns, I call my computers
by what they are. Maybe the Grid 1520 with the failed HD when I have
The problem comes when you have several of the same machine....
FWIW, I haven't properly named many of my machines yet. The PDP11/45 is
'Malard' (one 'l' to keep it down to 6 characters) -- at the time I got
her, she was the fastest machine I owned, so she was named after the
fastest steam locomotive. My first PERQ is 'Evstar' or 'Evening Star',
also a steam locomotive -- the last one made for BR -- as the PERQ is in
some ways the last truely classic computer. My other PERQ 2 is 'King
George V', yet another steam loco -- one that was shiped to the States
for a time, and therefore fitted with a bell -- as that PERQ has all the
bells and whistles :-)
I really must think up proper names for the P800s, other PDP11s and the
PDP8s. They deserve naming.
-tony