8 Jan
1999
8 Jan
'99
6:11 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Miles O'Neal <meo(a)netads.com
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu Date: Saturday, 9
January 1999 19:03
Subject: RT - the rude, the bad, and the ugly
<snip
Quick vignettes...
1) I contracted for IBM here in Austin for a while. There
was an RT on the austin.ibm.com network named "doorstop".
AFAIK, about all it was being used for was to answer the
pings for "doorstop".
2) At PSW, Frank King (the IBM upper manager who more or
less built the IBM workstation division) had just been
installed as president when we took him on a tour of the
premises. As we escorted him into the secure lab, his
eyes lit up as he saw an RT.
``An RT! Wonderful! What do you use this for?''
Tom Stewart pushed it in front of the door to hold it open.
``A doorstop? What else?''
<snip The high bidder would get to step out back onto the
rifle range
(why have 5 acres in Texas without a rifle range?), and put a
7.62mm bullet into the RT's evil, beating heart.
<snip Nah, I'm sure there are 3rd world countries that
would take them.
But after they had them a while, they'd be even more pissed at
the US than they are now... 8^/
Is that possible??? ;^)
Having almost choked on my coffee (actually it, was a West End Draught, but
I digress) and had my leg scratched by the resident cat who took flight off
my lap whilst reading the above, I think it may be time that we required
such posts to have an obligatory warning of C&C (Coffee & Cats) variety, so
I don't do it again. :^)
Any seconders?
Cheers
Geoff Roberts
Computer Room Internet Cafe
Port Pirie
South Australia.
netcafe(a)pirie.mtx.net.au