1 Mar
2005
1 Mar
'05
5:28 p.m.
I believe this is a T-shirt with a lear-sigler ADM-3 terminal on the front-
only $11 (and up)
http://www.cafepress.com/lt_goodcomputer
More shirts at http://legaltshirts.com/
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conflicting. --Michael Meissner, meissner at osf.org
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1 Mar
1 Mar
5:49 p.m.
>>>> "Tom" == Tom Peters
<tpeters at mixcom.com> writes:
Tom> I believe this is a T-shirt with a lear-sigler ADM-3 terminal on
Tom> the front- only $11 (and up)
Tom> http://www.cafepress.com/lt_goodcomputer
Tom> More shirts at http://legaltshirts.com/
Cute...
Maybe I should republish the T-shirt I made up in college, with the
text:
C6 A4 83 92
40 C9 C2 D4
:-)
Somewhat related, there once was a company named "Outer Products" that
produced lovely geek T-shirts. One I remember -- it said:
(.)(.)
IKF4084
paul
5:59 p.m.
New subject: Cool Nerd Tshirts Was Re: (no subject)
Check out the t-shirt sold on this site for $10, I got one 2 weeks ago.
http://ibm1130.org/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Koning" <pkoning at equallogic.com>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: (no subject)
>>>> "Tom" == Tom Peters <tpeters at mixcom.com> writes:
Tom> I believe this is a T-shirt with a lear-sigler ADM-3 terminal on
Tom> the front- only $11 (and up)
Tom> http://www.cafepress.com/lt_goodcomputer
Tom> More shirts at http://legaltshirts.com/
Cute...
Maybe I should republish the T-shirt I made up in college, with the
text:
C6 A4 83 92
40 C9 C2 D4
:-)
Somewhat related, there once was a company named "Outer Products" that
produced lovely geek T-shirts. One I remember -- it said:
(.)(.)
IKF4084
paul
6:04 p.m.
Maybe I should republish the T-shirt I made up in
college, with the
text:
C6 A4 83 92
40 C9 C2 D4
:-)
Somewhat related, there once was a company named "Outer Products" that
produced lovely geek T-shirts. One I remember -- it said:
(.)(.)
IKF4084
Ok, Paul, my secret decoder ring doesn't seem to be working. How long
before you decode this for us?
Ashley
8:09 p.m.
>>>> "Ashley" == Ashley Carder
<wacarder at usit.net> writes:
> Maybe I should republish the T-shirt I made up in
college, with
> the text:
>
> C6 A4 83 92 40 C9 C2 D4
See an EBCDIC code chart...
> Somewhat related, there once was a company named
"Outer Products"
> that produced lovely geek T-shirts. One I remember -- it said:
>
> (.)(.) IKF4084
Ashley> Ok, Paul, my secret decoder ring doesn't seem to be working.
Ashley> How long before you decode this for us?
OS/360 Messages and Codes says IKF is a Cobol compiler message. The
COBOL manual says (going from memory here -- it's not on Al's site):
IKF4084-I -- Questionable use of parentheses accepted
with doubts as to meaning
I haven't a clue what kind of code a compiler would generate when it
spits out a message like that. My guess is that this is what you get
if you feed it the source line "(.)(.)" but I haven't actually tried
that.
paul
8:13 p.m.
Paul Koning wrote:
OS/360 Messages and Codes says IKF is a Cobol compiler
message. The
COBOL manual says (going from memory here -- it's not on Al's site):
IKF4084-I -- Questionable use of parentheses accepted
with doubts as to meaning
I haven't a clue what kind of code a compiler would generate when it
spits out a message like that. My guess is that this is what you get
if you feed it the source line "(.)(.)" but I haven't actually tried
that.
I was thinking something like this ASCII art
._____________________
|
| ,-,__,
| { / /__\
| { `}'- -/
| {_}/\ o/
| __} {__
| / " \
|/ /| 0} 0} \
/ / \`~' `"/\ \
{ : } { : }
\ \ } . { / /
|\ \/ \ /
| j{ }t
| { }
| \ /
| \ V
| `, \
| {` }
|_____ {' /_________
; /
; /
, ,
(, k
\,,,
.
8:53 p.m.
> C6 A4 83
92 40 C9 C2 D4
See an EBCDIC code chart...
> Somewhat related, there once was a company
named "Outer Products"
> that produced lovely geek T-shirts. One I remember -- it said:
>
> (.)(.) IKF4084
Ashley> Ok, Paul, my secret decoder ring doesn't seem to be working.
Ashley> How long before you decode this for us?
OS/360 Messages and Codes says IKF is a Cobol compiler message. The
COBOL manual says (going from memory here -- it's not on Al's site):
IKF4084-I -- Questionable use of parentheses accepted
with doubts as to meaning
I haven't a clue what kind of code a compiler would generate when it
spits out a message like that. My guess is that this is what you get
if you feed it the source line "(.)(.)" but I haven't actually tried
that.
paul
9:50 p.m.
>> Maybe I should republish the T-shirt I made
up in college, with
>> the text:
>>
>> C6 A4 83 92 40 C9 C2 D4
Got it!
I take it that you wore this shirt when you were a DEC guy?
> (.)(.)
IKF4084
OS/360 Messages and Codes says IKF is a Cobol compiler message. The
COBOL manual says (going from memory here -- it's not on Al's site):
IKF4084-I -- Questionable use of parentheses accepted
with doubts as to meaning
I haven't a clue what kind of code a compiler would generate when it
spits out a message like that. My guess is that this is what you get
if you feed it the source line "(.)(.)" but I haven't actually tried
that.
2 Mar
2 Mar
7:46 a.m.
>>>> "Ashley" == Ashley Carder
<wacarder at usit.net> writes:
> >> Maybe I should republish the T-shirt I
made up in college, with
> >> the text:
> >>
> >> C6 A4 83 92 40 C9 C2 D4
Ashley> Got it!
Ashley> I take it that you wore this shirt when you were a DEC guy?
In college, working mostly on a RSTS system (PDP11/45) but also from
time to time on IBM 360/44 (curiously running OS/360 PCP) and
occasionally an IBM 1620.
The shirt was a great hit at U Eindhoven (Holland) -- Burroughs
country...
paul
9:38 a.m.
>>Maybe I should republish the T-shirt I made up
in college, with
>>the text:
>>C6 A4 83 92 40 C9 C2 D4
See an EBCDIC code chart...
But I *like* their hardware ... -_-
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1 Mar
1 Mar
6:10 p.m.
At 05:49 PM 3/1/05 -0500, you wrote:
A friend of mine was a pharmacology student in college. Their
pharmacology club made up some T-shirts that said "Things go better with
coke" and the coke swirl along with a drawing of a chemical compound.
Everybody though the shirts looked cool and complimented them on them. No
body outside of the club realized that the drawing was of a cocaine molecule!
Joe
>>>> "Tom" == Tom Peters <tpeters at mixcom.com> writes:
Tom> I believe this is a T-shirt with a lear-sigler ADM-3 terminal on
Tom> the front- only $11 (and up)
Tom> http://www.cafepress.com/lt_goodcomputer
Tom> More shirts at http://legaltshirts.com/
Cute...
Maybe I should republish the T-shirt I made up in college, with the
text:
C6 A4 83 92
40 C9 C2 D4
:-)
Somewhat related, there once was a company named "Outer Products" that
produced lovely geek T-shirts. One I remember -- it said:
(.)(.)
IKF4084
paul 
6:31 p.m.
New subject: T-shirts
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Tom Peters wrote:
I believe this is a T-shirt with a lear-sigler ADM-3
terminal on the front-
only $11 (and up)
http://www.cafepress.com/lt_goodcomputer
More shirts at http://legaltshirts.com/
These are much better:
http://www.bustedtees.com/
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2 Mar
2 Mar
4:03 a.m.
New subject: T-shirts
Those are good, but how can we forget about www.errorwear.com? There's
nothing quite like wearing the ever infamous Windows BSoD on your chest!
These are much better:
http://www.bustedtees.com/
David M. Vohs
Digital Archaeologist & Computer Historian
Computer Collection:
"Triumph": Commodore 64, 1802, 1541, Indus GT, FDD-1, GeoRAM 512, MPS-801.
"Leela": Original Apple Macintosh, Imagewriter II.
"Delorean": TI-99/4A, TI Speech Synthesizer.
"Spectrum": Tandy Color Computer III.
"Monolith": Apple Macintosh Portable.
"Boombox": Sharp PC-7000.
"Butterfly": Tandy 200, PDD-2.
"Shapeshifter": Epson QX-10, Comrex HDD, Titan graphics/MS-DOS board.
"Scout": Otrona Attache.
(prospective) "Pioneer": Apple LISA II.
"TMA-1": Atari Portfolio, Memory Expander +
"Centaur": Commodore Amiga 2000.
"Neon": Zenith Minisport.
1 Mar
1 Mar
9:25 p.m.
On Mar 1, 2005, at 2:28 PM, Tom Peters wrote:
I believe this is a T-shirt with a lear-sigler ADM-3
terminal on the
front- only $11 (and up)
http://www.cafepress.com/lt_goodcomputer
More shirts at http://legaltshirts.com/
Ok, If he gets to spam his shirts, I get to spam mine!
http://www.cafepress.com/pentaminogroup
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extraordinary size and
number of generations before finishing.
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