Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Malcolm Purvis Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Old gadgets that expected an owner Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:57:46 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <1939e645b7be28e37b80@dev.null> <10vog9h$v5f$1@nntp.sonologic.net> <1780862869-19817@newsgrouper.org> <90nVR.12379$8Em1.11808@fx42.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Injection-Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:57:48 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="694732"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19bd84jTLf1FTPfk0NaABfFWC89BYi7ODOnVBb25iATHw=="; posting-host="3ddf9865fba324ee3c0a122c75e6e2d0" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6A9VnByF6z/7DQPrHfISEIFMsWI= sha1:25y7TeQ2DaxAtvZmRuLU+mifuls= sha256:ECt9xJXvWlmDbJA7kook6MnyPHWSGTFlYu+o8j3BGTA= sha1:g6bQuFGlriRxXMjGMmGYDSF+4Qo= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:234976 >>>>> "Scott" == Scott Lurndal writes: > Well, there was the Lions' commentary, which was widely > available in > the late 70's and beyond. We actually used a photocopy version > of the > Lions text for a college course in 1979/80. When I studied Computer Science at the University of NSW in the late 1980s we studied the Lions' commentary, taught by John Lions himself. An entire lecture was devoted to the "You are expected not to understand this" comment and we were expected to understand it in detail. Malcolm -- Malcolm Purvis