24 Aug
1998
24 Aug
'98
6:17 a.m.
It's a really wacky IC. It's a 68 pin package.
Looks kinda like this
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| +----------+ |
| +-----+ | | |
| | | R | | |
| +-----+ | | |
| +----------+ |
+-----------------------------------------------+
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Both the boxes are ceramic squares (grey ceramic, like an eprom or
something). The little R looks like a surface mount resistor or cap. The
bigger ceramic square has:
SMS300-1
0002624
001 A 7620 on it
The field of the chip is white with grey zebra stripe lines running to
each of the pins. On the top of the IC is screened:
00020730001C
In gold and on the bottom:
SMS INC 2075-0001
In black.
What the heck is this thing?!?!? I know it's probably an engineering
sample, but of what?
Tony
7:26 a.m.
New subject: Microsoft Word Easter Egg
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
> In Word, type:
>
> "I'd like to see Bill Gates dead"
>
> Highlight the sentence. Then go into Tools, Thesaurus.
>
> Looks like there are some disgruntled Microsoft employees out there.
Funny, but just a coincidence it would seem. Simply highlight "I'd" and
check the thesaurus. It still says "I'll drink to that" (which is the
last phrase in the list that the thesaurus comes up with for those
fortunate enough to not have MS Turd anywhere near their computer).
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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7:31 a.m.
New subject: Microsoft Word Easter Egg
Try also zzz then spell check it. ;)
Dan
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
Stop me if you've heard this one already:
In Word, type:
"I'd like to see Bill Gates dead"
Highlight the sentence. Then go into Tools, Thesaurus.
Looks like there are some disgruntled Microsoft employees out there.
-- Doug
7:40 a.m.
New subject: Microsoft Word Easter Egg
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, The Adept wrote:
Try also zzz then spell check it. ;)
???
Mine says not in dictionary. Perhaps someone added a definition to this
inyour custom dictionary and fooled you :)
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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7:41 a.m.
New subject: Microsoft Word Easter Egg
Make that 4 zed (zzzz)
Dan
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, The Adept wrote:
Try also zzz then spell check it. ;)
Dan
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
Stop me if you've heard this one already:
In Word, type:
"I'd like to see Bill Gates dead"
Highlight the sentence. Then go into Tools, Thesaurus.
Looks like there are some disgruntled Microsoft employees out there.
-- Doug
7:40 a.m.
New subject: Microsoft Word Easter Egg
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
> In Word, type: "I'd like to see
Bill Gates dead"
> Highlight the sentence. Then go into Tools, Thesaurus.
> Looks like there are some disgruntled Microsoft employees out there.
Wow! At first I was ROTFLMAO. But then I found the response is the same
if you give it "joe smith" ;( Oh well, still amusing (and take a look
through the other suggested phrases while you're at it.)
-wayne cox
9:25 a.m.
New subject: Microsoft Word Easter Egg
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
This isn't an easter egg at all (nor are the half-dozen "jokes" like this
I've
seen floating around). It's just that phrase isn't in the thesaurus so the
closest thing it found alphabetically was a phrase beginning with "I'll".
There is no intended meaning coorelation; because it didn't understand the
meaning of the original phrase, it fell back on finding something
lexicographically close rather than close in meaning.
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> In Word, type: "I'd like to
see Bill Gates dead"
> Highlight the sentence. Then go into Tools, Thesaurus.
> Looks like there are some disgruntled Microsoft employees out there.
Wow! At first I was ROTFLMAO. But then I found the response is the same
if you give it "joe smith" ;( Oh well, still amusing (and take a look
through the other suggested phrases while you're at it.) 
2:33 p.m.
New subject: Microsoft Word Easter Egg
Date sent: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 13:50:10 -0500 (CDT)
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To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
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Subject: Microsoft Word Easter Egg
Originally to: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
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Stop me if you've heard this one already:
Oh my God!! That's hilarious!! I'm glad to see that there are some MicroSerfs
that are a little less than gruntled.
Easter eggs are fun. I found a couple on my Newton MP100 that are rather nifty.
Paul Braun
NerdWare -- The History of the PC and the Nerds who brought it to you.
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In Word, type:
"I'd like to see Bill Gates dead"
Highlight the sentence. Then go into Tools, Thesaurus.
Looks like there are some disgruntled Microsoft employees out there.
-- Doug 
25 Aug
25 Aug
1:33 p.m.
New subject: Microsoft Word Easter Egg
Hmmmmmm... All I get is an error that the highlighted text is
greater than 32 characters....
Will
Doug Yowza wrote:
Stop me if you've heard this one already:
In Word, type:
"I'd like to see Bill Gates dead"
Highlight the sentence. Then go into Tools, Thesaurus.
Looks like there are some disgruntled Microsoft employees out there.
-- Doug
1:36 p.m.
New subject: Microsoft Word Easter Egg
On a related item, as memory serves me, if you typed the following
to monitor level TOPS-10.....
.GOTO HELL
TOPS-10 would return....
.GET STUFFED
Will
Doug Yowza wrote:
Stop me if you've heard this one already:
In Word, type:
"I'd like to see Bill Gates dead"
Highlight the sentence. Then go into Tools, Thesaurus.
Looks like there are some disgruntled Microsoft employees out there.
-- Doug 
26 Aug
26 Aug
1:56 a.m.
New subject: xyzzy? (Was: Re: Microsoft Word Easter Egg)
On a somewhat related topic... I've heard that some OSes had the magical
command xyzzy built in, but I haven't found one yet. Does anyone know if
this is true? If so, what OSes support this important command?
ttfn
srw
On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, will emerson wrote:
On a related item, as memory serves me, if you typed
the following
to monitor level TOPS-10.....
.GOTO HELL
TOPS-10 would return....
.GET STUFFED
2:12 a.m.
New subject: xyzzy? (Was: Re: Microsoft Word Easter Egg)
In a message Scott Walde said = >
On a somewhat related topic... I've heard that some OSes had the magical
command xyzzy built in, but I haven't found one yet. Does anyone know if
this is true? If so, what OSes support this important command?
ttfn
srw
Data General OS's...
(I was told it was on machines from the Nova through the Eclipse).
I'm not sure but I think the MV8000 had it as well.
Bill
12:27 a.m.
New subject: Microsoft Word Easter Egg
On a related item, as memory serves me, if you typed
the following
to monitor level TOPS-10.....
.GOTO HELL
TOPS-10 would return....
.GET STUFFED
RT-11 also has some things like that...
.help me
?HELP-Help is not available for you
or
.mung (with no argument)
?How can I mung nothing?
or
.make love
not war?
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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