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| From | Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: A naked PDP11 |
| Date | 2020-09-16 17:42 +0000 |
| Organization | NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 |
| Message-ID | <rjtiqs11ed1@news3.newsguy.com> (permalink) |
| References | <rjsvdd$jji$1@dont-email.me> <gSp8H.322408$0W4.127135@fx42.iad> |
On 2020-09-16, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote: > gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> writes: > >> It is salutary to muse that this is now 49 years ago, and that >> 49 years previously it was 1922, before the days of regular >> radio broadcasting when the man-on-the-Clapham-Omnibus >> (John Doe to the Yanks) knew nothing of electronics*****, and >> certainly a decade and a half before electronic computers >> were even considered. For most people (here in Brit, at least) >> there were no telephones or motor cars. > > I think the yanks would say 'Joe Sixpack'. John Doe > is reserved for unidentified corpses. I seem to recall that 49 years ago "John Doe" was a much more generic term than it is today. -- /~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a dictatorship. \ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | Apple is a cult. X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | Linux is anarchy. / \ if you read it the right way. | Pick your poison.
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A naked PDP11 gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-16 13:11 +0100
Re: A naked PDP11 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-09-16 15:06 +0000
Re: A naked PDP11 JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-16 11:28 -0500
Re: A naked PDP11 Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2020-09-16 17:42 +0000
Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-09-16 16:24 +0000
Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-16 13:49 -0400
Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-16 22:20 +0100
Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-09-16 20:29 -0400
Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2020-09-17 01:01 +0000
Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-16 21:56 -0400
Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-16 11:12 -0700
Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2020-09-17 04:15 +0000
Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-17 08:14 +0100
Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-17 11:29 -0700
Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-17 13:49 -0500
Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-18 11:48 -0700
Re: A naked PDP11 and not much new since J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 17:08 -0400
Re: A naked PDP11 Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-09-16 20:18 -0400
Re: A naked PDP11 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-17 07:11 +0100
Re: A naked PDP11 Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2020-09-17 11:26 -0400
Re: A naked PDP11 Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2020-09-17 23:32 -0400
Re: A naked PDP11 JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 10:04 -0500
Re: A naked PDP11 maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-18 16:44 +0000
OT: sawing machines Re: A naked PDP11 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-18 11:22 -0700
Re: OT: sawing machines Re: A naked PDP11 JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 15:37 -0500
Re: A naked PDP11 Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2020-09-19 02:24 -0300
Re: A naked PDP11 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-18 11:49 -0700
Re: A naked PDP11 David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2020-10-06 00:21 +0000
Re: A naked PDP11 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-10-06 10:27 -0700
Re: A naked PDP11 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2020-10-06 17:45 +0000
Re: A naked PDP11 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-10-07 15:48 -0700
Re: A naked PDP11 Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2020-10-08 08:23 +0000
Re: A naked PDP11 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2020-10-07 15:45 -0700
Re: A naked PDP11 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-18 11:39 -0700
Re: A naked PDP11 JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 15:41 -0500
Re: A naked PDP11 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-18 17:12 -0400
Re: A naked PDP11 Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2020-09-18 22:41 +0100
Re: A naked PDP11 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-18 16:43 -0700
Re: A naked PDP11 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-19 11:50 -0700
Re: A naked PDP11 maus <maus@dmaus.org> - 2020-09-19 19:06 +0000
Re: A naked PDP11 J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2020-09-19 15:30 -0400
Re: A naked PDP11 JimP <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2020-09-20 10:47 -0500
Re: A naked PDP11 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2020-09-18 11:41 -0700
Re: A naked PDP11 Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2020-09-22 10:07 -0700
Re: A naked PDP11 Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2020-09-22 15:39 -0700
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