From: tph@longhorn.uucp (Tom Harrington) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.sys.pdp8 Subject: YKYBHTLW (was Re: PDP-3 mystery) Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers,alt.sys.pdp8 Date: 25 Feb 1999 17:06:06 GMT Organization: Mechanist Industries Lines: 13 Message-ID: <7b3vtu$4fq4@eccws1.dearborn.ford.com> References: <36d4c91d.3970464@netnews.worldnet.att.net> Reply-To: tph@rmi.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 19.53.90.53 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!jobone!dailyplanet.srl.ford.com!eccws1.dearborn.ford.com!longhorn!tph David M. Razler (david.razler@worldnet.att.net) wrote: : About the only machine in the early series NEVER built or designed was the : PDP-2, a number reserved for a proposed 24-bit machine. : dmr YKYBHTLW this "dmr", combined with the AT&T email address, causes you to become temporarily confused as to the message's author. -- Tom Harrington --------- tph@rmii.com -------- http://rainbow.rmii.com/~tph "Somebody shoot me!" -Animaniacs Cookie's Revenge: ftp://ftp.rmi.net/pub2/tph/cookie/cookies-revenge.sit.hqx ###### From: rivie@rivie.logan.teraglobal (Roger Ivie) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,alt.sys.pdp8 Subject: Re: YKYBHTLW (was Re: PDP-3 mystery) References: <36d4c91d.3970464@netnews.worldnet.att.net> <7b3vtu$4fq4@eccws1.dearborn.ford.com> Reply-To: rivie@teraglobal.com Message-ID: X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.2 UNIX) Lines: 23 Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:09:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.160.63.36 X-Trace: news.siscom.net 920045349 209.160.63.36 (Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:09:09 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:09:09 EST Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!feed2.news.luth.se!luth.se!news.algonet.se!algonet!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-xfer.siscom.net!news.siscom.net!rivie In article <7b3vtu$4fq4@eccws1.dearborn.ford.com>, Tom Harrington wrote: >David M. Razler (david.razler@worldnet.att.net) wrote: > >: About the only machine in the early series NEVER built or designed was the >: PDP-2, a number reserved for a proposed 24-bit machine. >: dmr > >YKYBHTLW this "dmr", combined with the AT&T email address, causes you >to become temporarily confused as to the message's author. I suppose it depends on _what_ you've been hacking. Personally, since I hang out so much on the alt.sys.pdp* newsgroups, if Dennis Ritchie made a post signed 'dmr' it would probably take me a while to realize it wasn't Razler. -- Roger Ivie TeraGlobal Communications Corporation 1770 North Research Park Way Suite 100 Logan, UT 84341 mailto:rivie@teraglobal.com phoneto:(435)787-0555 faxto:(435)787-0516