Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.sys.pdp11,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Revamped PDP-11 in Brooklyn Date: 21 May 2014 15:20:11 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <20140519154416.487cd031.rsw@therandymon.com> <20140519154736.4237c20a.rsw@therandymon.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net tnGHL/DDBWpS6Qiw3pP3yQZlrfSpHufQ+sOMFK70Jo7ISpBykl Cancel-Lock: sha1:zm5EBkx6t9y9lA95CclawMZ4RpA= X-No-Archive: Yes User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-16 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:2964 On 2014-05-21, Bob Eager wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2014 13:18:36 +0000, Huge wrote: > >> On 2014-05-21, Bill Gunshannon wrote: >>> In article , >>> Bob Eager writes: >>>> On Wed, 21 May 2014 11:38:19 +0000, Huge wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 2014-05-21, Bob Eager wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 21 May 2014 10:32:48 +0000, Huge wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Happy days, and as many free biscuits/bags of crisps as you could >>>>>>> eat. >>>>>> >>>>>> Is that why you are Huge? :-) >>>>> >>>>> One of the reasons. It differs only by one letter from my given >>>>> name, I'm 6'3" and have been 20 stone in the past (although back down >>>>> to 16.5 at the moment), and it's what my friends have been calling me >>>>> for decades. >>>> >>>> I was a bit over 21 stone this time last year. I'm now a bit under 17 >>>> stone although I've kept it fairly static at 17 stone since Christmas. >>>> Aiming to lose a bit more now...! >>>> >>>> >>> How big are those stones? Pebbles? Boulders? >> >> 14 lb. So, when I really *was* "Huge", I was 280lb. >> >>> Sorry, here it is :-) >>> >>> I am sure most of our American readers are either confused or >>> scrambling for Google to find out just what that means. >> >> Interesting that although America has retained much obsolete British >> terminology, usage and units, they have discarded the stone. And the >> fortnight. > > Apart from, of course, DEC using the microfortnight. When one did an RSX11M build, when it got to the point of assembling the kernel, depending on what you'd previously told it the clock frequency was, it told you to go and get a cup of coffee or tea... -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 68th day of Discord in the YOLD 3180 "I do not believe in revealed religion — I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another." Lord Byron, 1778-1824, letter to Rev. Francis Hodgson, 1811