17 Jun
2000
17 Jun
'00
2:59 p.m.
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, John Wilson wrote:
[...] Myarc Geneve
more or less at least. Not bad for an undergrad... A pretty good chunk of
his rent/food were paid for by the $10 registration fees for his "Fast Term"
terminal program which was on Compuserve, evidently it was pretty popular
(I gather it was unusual in being able to go above 1200 baud). We got pretty
tired of the 6-tone sequence it would squeak out on every ^G though, he had
hacked that in as a joke but evidently it ended up being permanent.
Wasn't that sequence taken from one of the demo programs in the
Editor/Assembler manual?
IIRC the machine's startup screen logo was a nice picture of a swan, drawn
by Mi Kyung Kim, the designer's girlfriend. (She was later shot by Colin
Ferguson on the LIRR.)
I heard about that. Wasn't that about the time that Jim "Tigercub"
Peterson passed on? Not a particularly happy issue of Micropendium, that
one...