29 Jul
2011
29 Jul
'11
12:14 p.m.
This is a copy of late 1970s "fortune" from Vax/Vms of the time,with some
additions.
I'm still trying to find my original printout of the actual filewhich I'll post
when I do.
But I didn't want this lost, and some of it's amusing.
Also several of the sayings are my fault or because of me or inspired by me.Some will live
forever in infamy
see: http://pastebin.com/RQz0ax0F
Again, it's not 100% original, when I do find that one, it'll get posted.Maybe
some here will recognize it.
I may never live down some of the ones that are my fault :)
Dan.
29 Jul
29 Jul
12:30 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> wrote:
This is a copy of late 1970s "fortune" from Vax/Vms of the time,with some
additions.
This must be one of the later additions: "My name's Friday. I carry a
486 ..."
Again, it's not 100% original, when I do find that
one, it'll get posted.Maybe some here
will recognize it.
I first ran FORTUNE.EXE in the Fall of 1984 on an 11/750 running VMS
3.4 or 3.6 (it was right around the time they upgraded). I probably
have that fortune file somewhere. I doubt it's all that historic or
profound (I do remember "11-PDP a ni deppart m'I !pleH", so I'm
guessing its ancestor ran on RSX-11 or RSTS) but if there's a place to
share such things, I can go look for it on a backup image and post it.
-ethan
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