8 Jan
1999
8 Jan
'99
9:11 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Miles O'Neal <meo(a)netads.com
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu Date: Saturday, 9
January 1999 19:03
Subject: RT - the rude, the bad, and the ugly
<snip
Quick vignettes...
1) I contracted for IBM here in Austin for a while. There
was an RT on the austin.ibm.com network named "doorstop".
AFAIK, about all it was being used for was to answer the
pings for "doorstop".
2) At PSW, Frank King (the IBM upper manager who more or
less built the IBM workstation division) had just been
installed as president when we took him on a tour of the
premises. As we escorted him into the secure lab, his
eyes lit up as he saw an RT.
``An RT! Wonderful! What do you use this for?''
Tom Stewart pushed it in front of the door to hold it open.
``A doorstop? What else?''
<snip The high bidder would get to step out back onto the
rifle range
(why have 5 acres in Texas without a rifle range?), and put a
7.62mm bullet into the RT's evil, beating heart.
<snip Nah, I'm sure there are 3rd world countries that
would take them.
But after they had them a while, they'd be even more pissed at
the US than they are now... 8^/
Is that possible??? ;^)
Having almost choked on my coffee (actually it, was a West End Draught, but
I digress) and had my leg scratched by the resident cat who took flight off
my lap whilst reading the above, I think it may be time that we required
such posts to have an obligatory warning of C&C (Coffee & Cats) variety, so
I don't do it again. :^)
Any seconders?
Cheers
Geoff Roberts
Computer Room Internet Cafe
Port Pirie
South Australia.
netcafe(a)pirie.mtx.net.au
9 Jan
9 Jan
2:25 a.m.
Computer Room Internet Cafe wrote:
>The high bidder would get to step out back onto
the rifle range
>(why have 5 acres in Texas without a rifle range?), and put a
>7.62mm bullet into the RT's evil, beating heart.
Crappy NATO 7.62 renaming of .30 cal. Jerks. Gimme a Winchester
.308.
>Nah, I'm sure there are 3rd world countries
that would take them.
>But after they had them a while, they'd be even more pissed at
>the US than they are now... 8^/
Who cares? We've got better computers _and_ guns in private hands.
Is that possible??? ;^)
Having almost choked on my coffee (actually it, was a West End Draught, but
I digress) and had my leg scratched by the resident cat who took flight off
my lap whilst reading the above, I think it may be time that we required
such posts to have an obligatory warning of C&C (Coffee & Cats) variety, so
I don't do it again. :^)
Sitting here with a light grey Tabby trying to ruin _another_ cheap
PClone keyboard by spilling a beer into it. (She's trying to ruin the
keyboard [she thinks I should be skritching her back, not tapping on
the other thing], I'm trying to type and preserve the beer for my own
use).
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
WARNING: The Attorney General has determined that Alcohol, Tobacco,
and Firearms can be hazardous to your health -- and get away with it.
7:19 a.m.
Ward Donald Griffiths III said...
|
|> >The high bidder would get to step out back onto the rifle range
|> >(why have 5 acres in Texas without a rifle range?), and put a
|> >7.62mm bullet into the RT's evil, beating heart.
|
|Crappy NATO 7.62 renaming of .30 cal. Jerks. Gimme a Winchester
|.308.
Ha!
Crappy Soviet 7.62x39 military ammo. But find me a new gun
in .308 for $99, and I'll buy it.
But, like an IBM 3101 terminal, you can toss an SKS or AK off a roof,
run over it with a truck, drag it through the mud, and it will *still*
let you log on and do its job. Um, I mean, shoot as well as it ever did.
[Which isn't that great, but fine for what it was intended for.
Just like an IBM 3101. Truly the Mack Truck of ASCII terminals.]
-Miles
8:21 p.m.
Eric Smith said...
|
|> Just like an IBM 3101. Truly the Mack Truck of ASCII terminals.]
|
|Does it use ANSI escape sequences etc., or did IBM invent their own?
I don't recall. They may have used ANSI, because
it really was RS-232 and ASCII. If the DEC and
Beehive terminals used ANSI, then yes, it did.
(Wander through /etc/termcap on a UNIX system.)
-Miles
9364
days inactive
9367
days old
5 comments
5 participants
participants (5)
-
eric＠brouhaha.com -
gram＠cnct.com -
meo＠netads.com -
netcafe＠pirie.mtx.net.au -
pechter＠monmouth.com