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Update Alice's PDP-10.

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@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@ that one in we thought we'd write ours out. So that's what we did.
Went back to OZ, found some hackers and went out for a Chinese dinner
that couldn't be beat, and didn't get up until the next morning when
we got a SEND from Ann Marie Finn. She said, "Kid, we found you
we got a SEND from Ann Marie Finn. She said, "Kid, we found your
initials in SIXBIT in the right half of a POPJ at the end of a two
megaword core dump full of garbage, just wanted to know if you had any
information about it". And I said, "Yes ma'am Ann Marie, I cannot tell
a lie, I put that XUNAME into that halfword".
a lie, I put that UNAME into that halfword".
After talking back and forth with Ann for about 45 messages we arrived
at the truth of the matter and Ann said that we had to go rebuild the
@@ -102,11 +102,11 @@ stood up, Ann stood up with the 27000 page RP06 pack, and Dave Clark
comes in with an IBM PC. He sits down, we sit down, Ann looks at the
IBM PC. Then at the 27000 page RP06 pack, then at the IBM PC, then at
the 27000 page RP06 pack, and began to cry, because Ann had come to
the realization that it was a typical case of 36%8==4 and that there
was no way to display those last four bits, and that Dave wasn't gonna
look at the 27000 pages of core dumps and photo files on the RP06 pack
with the comments and -READ-.-THIS- files explaining what each one was
to be used as evidence against us.
the realization that it was a typical case of 36 % 8 == 4 and that
there was no way to display those last four bits, and that Dave wasn't
gonna look at the 27000 pages of core dumps and photo files on the
RP06 pack with the comments and -READ-.-THIS- files explaining what
each one was to be used as evidence against us.
And we were permanently assigned to the batch dregs queue and had to
rebuild the bittable (in the batch dregs queue). But that's not what
@@ -130,11 +130,12 @@ I walked in there and I said "Droids, I want to lose. I mean, I want
to lose. I want to see line editors on CRTs and nulls in my files.
Write 36 bit ascii that can't be read except with the monitor
filtering it. I mean LOSE, LOSE, LOSE!" And I started jumping up and
down yelling "LOSE, LOSE", and Kevin Paetzold came in wearing his
moose ear hat and started jumping up and down with me yelling "LOSE,
LOSE", and a DEC sales rep came over, put an arm around my shoulder,
and said "How'd you like me to show you a *real* editor that has
macros and things like that? We have one, it's called TV...."
down yelling "LOSE, LOSE", and Mark Crispin came in and started
jumping up and down with me yelling "Hee, dakedo UNIX nanka wo
tsukatte, umaku ikanakute mo shiranai yo", and a DEC sales rep came
over, put an arm around my shoulder, and said "How'd you like me to
show you a *real* editor that has macros and things like that? We
have one, it's called TV...."
Didn't feel too good about it.
@@ -145,10 +146,10 @@ things, and I was just having a tough time there. They was diverting
and inverting every single part of me and they was leaving no bit
untouched.
Finally I got to the very last office (I'd been in all the rest), the
very last desk, after that whole big thing there, and I walk over and
say "what do you want?" and the man says "Kid, we only got one
question: have you ever been dewheeled?"
Finally I got to the very last office, the very last desk, after that
whole big thing there, and I walk over and say "what do you want?" and
the man says "Kid, we only got one question: have you ever been
dewheeled?"
So I proceeded to tell him the story of the 10600 page five pack PS:
with full orchestration and five part harmony and other phenomena and
@@ -160,9 +161,9 @@ comments and the -READ-.-THIS- files and he stopped me right there and
said "Kid, I want you to go sit over there on that bench marked Large
Systems SIG. NOW, KID!"
I, I walked over to the bench there... See, the LCG group is where
they put you if they think you may not be compatible with the rest of
DEC's product line.
I, I walked over to the bench there... See, the Large Computer Group
is where they put you if they think you may not be compatible with the
rest of DEC's product line.
There was all kinds of mean nasty ugly people there on the bench...
Chaosnet designers... Lisp hackers... TECO hackers. TECO hackers
@@ -171,16 +172,16 @@ hairiest TECO hacker of them all was coming over to me. And he was
mean and nasty and horrible and undocumented and all kinds of stuff.
And he sat down next to me and said:
[1:i*u14<q1&377.f"nir'q1/400.u1>[8
[1:i*^Yu14<q1&377.f"nir'q1/400.u1>^[[8
.-z(1702117120m81869946983m8w660873337m8w1466458484m8
)+z,.ffx*[0:ft0w
)+z,.f^@fx*[0:ft^]0^[w^\
And I said "I didn't get nothing, I had to rebuild the bittable in
queue six" and he said:
[1:i*u16<q1&77.+32iq1f"l#-1/100.#-1&7777777777.'"#/100.'u1r>6c[6
[1:i*^Yu16<q1&77.+32iq1f"l#-1/100.#-1&7777777777.'"#/100.'u1r>6c^[[6
.(675041640067.m6w416300715765.m6w004445675045.m6
455445440046.m6w576200535144.m6w370000000000.m6),.fx*[0:ft0w
455445440046.m6w576200535144.m6w370000000000.m6),.fx*[0:ft^]0^[w^\
And I said "Littering". And they all moved away from me on the bench
there, with the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty ugly stuff
@@ -189,7 +190,7 @@ default EMACS key bindings". And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench talking about Chaosnet hacking
and Lisp interpreters written in TECO, and everything was fine. And
we were eating Peking ravs and smoking all kinds of things until the
guy from DDC came over, had some paper in his hand, said:
guy from DDC came over, had a stack of punch cards in his hand, said:
KIDS-THIS-SPR-FORM-HAS-FIFTY-EIGHT-LINES-THIRTY-SEVEN-BOXES-AN'-
SIXTY-EIGHT-QUESTIONS-WE-WANT-TO-KNOW-THE-DETAILS-OF-THE-BUG-THE-
@@ -202,12 +203,12 @@ that he said or why we were doing this but we had fun filling out the
forms in triplicate and speculating on why we were filling out SPRs on
unsupported products.
I filled out the special form with the four-level macro defining
macros. Typed it in there just like it was and everything was fine.
And I put down my keyboard, and I switched buffers, and there ... in
the other buffer... centered in the other buffer... away from
everything else in the buffer... in parentheses, capital letters, in
reverse video, read the following words:
I filled out the form with the GALAXY I/O library and the four-level
macro defining macros, typed it in there just like it was and
everything was fine. And I put down my keyboard, and I switched
buffers, and there ... in the other buffer... centered in the other
buffer... away from everything else in the buffer... in parentheses,
capital letters, in reverse video, read the following words:
"Kid, have you taken the ``VMS for TOPS-20 managers'' course yet?"
@@ -250,9 +251,9 @@ With feelin'.
You can hack anything you want, with TECO and DDT.
You can hack anything you want, with just TECO and DDT.
You can hack anything you want, with TECO and DDT.
$U in and begin to hack.
Twiddle bits in a core dump and write it back.
Twiddle bits in a core dump and write 'em back.
You can hack anything you want, with TECO and DDT.
(But be careful typing <RET>)
Just with TECO and DDT!
With TECO and DDT!