3 Aug
2010
3 Aug
'10
3:57 a.m.
Mark wrote:
At 22:17 -0500 8/2/10, Tim wrote:
Of course the Blues Brothers had their own computer acronym:
SCMODS = State County and Municipal Offender Data System
pronounced Skamods with a distinct tone of disdain by Elwood IIRC.
The cop car terminals looked pretty slick for 1980. Almost like mobile PLATO
terminals with their orange plasma display. Maybe it was an actual
Motorola product? Of course Motorola and PLATO were also suburban
Chicago/Illinois tie-ins :-). And the mall that gets destroyed, I have
been told, was (previous to being a mall) one of the Teletype factories
in Skokie.
Tim.
Tim "Excessive force in the apprehension of
abused acronyms has been
approved" Shoppa.
Ah! a quote from one of my favorites - "The Big Blues
Brothers"