Wow, Chuck, that was some great sleuthing there! Thanks.
I'm still wondering how on earth that demonstration
snippet ended up on a T-shirt, but the owner really wasn't
interested in talking about it. First off I don't think
he spoke much English, second, I speak hardly any Spanish,
and third, I think he found it impossible to imagine that
someone was really that interested in the shirt. He probably
thought I was hitting on him. (I have to admit, it's one of my
more tired pickup lines: "Hey, is that FORTRAN on your shirt?")
In any case he kind of squirmed around and wouldn't stand still
long enough for me to really read it carefully. I had a second,
third and fourth glance at it as we snaked through the check-in
line at the airport.
Interesting that the last word of that "STATEMENT NOT IN LANGUAGE"
was missing from the shirt.
Anyway -- thanks for solving the "Where did it come from?" half
of the mystery. The "How did it get here?" part I'm afraid is
unanswerable.
Brian
The source is easy to recognize--and I'm surprised
that more folks
didn't recognize it--IBM QUICKTRAN. It took quite a bit of digging
just to find a reference on the web, however:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/issue_pdf/frontmatter_pdf/149/3683.pdf
The article (page 497) appears to be the source of your T-shirt.
Cheers,
Chuck
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