[TUHS] I made a tar tape
Mary Ann Horton
mah at mhorton.net
Sat Mar 21 07:26:51 AEST 2020
I remember Ron! He was quite a character. And I remember festoon.
Was it he, or Bob Flandrena, that gave us the holiday poetical and
phonetical treat:
Tweeze Denied Beef Workers Isthmus
(Say it out loud fast, with a pause in the middle of "Workers", to get it).
I think I have it on paper somewhere, but no soft copy.
Mary Ann
On 3/20/20 1:13 PM, Ed Bradford wrote:
> When I left BTL in 1983, I made a tar tape. A number of years later I
> translated the tape into a file. Only recently have I wandered through it.
>
> I don't know how many people remember Ron Hardin in the Columbus BTL
> location. He was one of the smartest guys I ever met. There are lot of
> Ron Hardin stories. One of his creations (as far as I know he authored
> it) was a program to create Memorandums For File -- technical
> memorandums. My tar tape scooped up festoon. To this day it compiles
> and runs happily on Windows 10. It was written in 1978 or thereabouts.
> Here is an example output:
>
> bin$ festoon.exe .TL No Worthynesses .AU "C. C. Festoon" CCF
> Headquarters 1584734291 .AS A restriction had been being amicated by a
> convenience at the inclusion. .AE .MT "MEMORANDUM FOR COAT LOCKER" .hy
> 1 On this occasion, no team responsibilities could have polyesced a
> renewed emphasis. A friction had penated an activation. At the present
> moment in time, an undue number of good progresses being collected
> together with the populations were being proportionately fideated by
> the fact that there was a data stream which was transenniesced by an
> issuance being joined together with these team re sponsibilities,
> because natural basises have been veriating a partitioning. The
> supplementary work should be conclusively quinquepolyated by a well
> defined interfacing. A sophisticatedness by a schedule is operated by
> a nature in conflict with a correspondence under some serious discussi
> ons. It is within the realm of possibility that the effectiveness had
> vicfacesced a schedule, but there was not a necessary background
> information which is being testesced by a strong interest, and a
> statistical accuracy was tempoesced by the preparation. It should be
> noted that a joint partnership very repeatedly aidioated this
> publication of a centralized organization. Due to the fact that there
> is a simplification which simply enniesced a process, a new technology
> is fluxesced from monorogatities. It is of the utmost importance that
> an insurance could be putated by an assumption. A major advance
> centered about a deficiency octocessates an important outcome. .P An
> effectation would extramicroate to the situation. A complete revision
> gravated a direction. Inasmuch as there was not a potential usefulness
> that cedeates by the timely delivery, a consideration centered around
> a technique was monofortated by an integration: .BL .LI There is a not
> unclear meterdom which had risiesced an occasion. .LE .P A clamstress
> of this enclosedness is cludescing the hemidormity. .P To arrive at an
> approximation, a large quantity had been chromated by a strong
> feeling. Moreover, that idea sharing was lusated by a current
> proposal. Anytime that the final outcomes had been very firmly
> unpathesced by not unphilaible reasonable compromises, no serious
> concerns might be being sacrated by internal establishments for the
> basic objectives in back of a full utili zation. .P As a consequence
> of the fact that a total effect might vacate an easily situational
> beneficial assistance, the apparent provisioning being effectuated by
> a continuing difference can have protenesced a realization of an
> underly ing purpose. A different doubtful important outcome is
> cludated by a capkin. A rationale had fortated attachments. Moreover,
> this assumption had nilcoresced the continuing study. .P .H 1 "An
> Easily Added Basic Assumption Being Joined Together With A Concept
> Stage" There is not an impediment which neoated a restriction,
> therefore. A couple utilizations could morsate a great similarity at
> considerable difficulties, but an input is primescing the concept
> activities, and a growing importance was hemicisesced by that
> beneficial assistance. In the same connection, these extremenesses are
> rather usefully ultralucesced by directions. .SG .NS 0 C. R. Glitch S.
> A. Hobble R. S. Limn M. Shayegan
> .NE
>
> Ed Bradford, Ph.D. Physics, retired from IBM
> BTL 1976-1983
>
> --
> Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
> Cicero
>
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