7 May
2010
7 May
'10
8:01 p.m.
On Fri, 7 May 2010, Tim Shoppa wrote:
I'm beginning to think that Dan Gahlinger is
like Andy Kaufman creating the
character Tony Clifton. He creates Valtrep on the Sentry-70, he creates
OS/2 for the PDP-11, just to get us to kick.
and the 1980s Sun computer on which email was invented,
and duplicating alignment disks, . . .
Actually, OS/2 for the PDP-11, that is so Tony
Clifton. It is funny in
retrospect :-)
Eric had a real funny retort on a NetBSD list, something
to do with buying the first sneaker for sneakernet :-),
I think the Valtrep ruse, I first saw in 2006.
Damn, he is good at it!
He had me convinced that he believed in stuff that he didn't have a clue
about!
Has anybody else heard of a Sentry-70, or is that also part of the prank?
WOW!
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