16 Nov
2004
16 Nov
'04
6:37 a.m.
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 15:27 -0500, Joe R. wrote:
Take a look at this
<http://www.classiccmp.org/hp/Fw%20%5bVTOD-L%5d%20Fw%20Picture%20from%201.jpg>
*sigh*
That is the most obvious fake I have ever seen. It made its rounds on
IRC as a joke about two months ago.
It is a fake, and a very bad one at that. The worst job is the paper
coming down from the "teletype".
But isn't the typewriter a horribly stretched DECWriter? And did they
even have sprocket feed paper in 1954?
Heck, FORTRAN didn't even exist in '54, did it?
And, I mean, come on, a large <US name for boat steering wheel>?
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Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe(a)ifi.uio.no>