16 Jan
2002
16 Jan
'02
12:02 a.m.
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Brian Chase wrote:
I'm the person that started the thread in
alt.sys.pdp10. I'm still
looking and have one unexplored lead at this point. In the process of
searching for the whereabouts (or demise) of the Foonly F1, I've
exchanged e-mail with a lot of interesting folks from that era of
computer generated visual effects.
Now I'm curious. "Foonly" is used as a variable name in the
"tutorial"
portion of the "Finite State Fantasies" computer comic by Rich Didday.
(See my web site for a scanned copy.) Wonder if this was a reference to
the TRON computer, or vice-versa? Or was this a geek-term like "Foo, Bar,
and Blech" already?