30 Jul
2008
30 Jul
'08
3:43 p.m.
"How to Goad and Levitate Your CHAOS System" is a spoof by some renegade
Data General employees on the venerable "How to Load and Generate Your AOS
System". It was a professionally-done manual with the same look and feel as
the original manual, but with substantially different text content. Its
contents are irreverant and humorous, and unfortunately only partially in
the DG archives.
DG's published ads were pretty funny also: "Batch is a Bitch",
"It's too
Hairy to be a Minicomputer", "The Bastards say 'Welcome'",
"Sorry it Took Us
So Long", "The Big Mouth Strikes Again" to mention a few.
Data General - 40 years old this year.
Bruce
Bruce Ray
Wild Hare Computer Systems, Inc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Kennedy" <chris at mainecoon.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 08:34 PM
Subject: Re: AOS "manual"
John Floren wrote:
Just got my hands on the local library's copy
of The New Hacker's
Dictionary, 2nd ed (couldn't pass it up even though I've read it
online), and I noticed that the entry for AOS mentions a joke manual
called "How to Goad and Levitate your CHAOS System". Does anybody have
a copy of this? Bitsavers?
You might try tracking down Terry Dowling, last at Adobe, and see if you
can get a pointer to a copy.
What would really be nice are the spoof advertisements that they did,
including the Infos ad (a spoof on the "Rinso" ads, with an arm holding a
box labeled "Infos" coming out of a Zebra SMD drive) and the "Look for the
DG label" parody (sung to the tune of "Look for the union label").
--
Chris Kennedy
chris at mainecoon.com AF6AP
http://www.mainecoon.com PGP KeyID 108DAB97
PGP fingerprint: 4E99 10B6 7253 B048 6685 6CBC 55E1 20A3 108D AB97
"Mr. McKittrick, after careful consideration..."