[TUHS] the Courier font family and nroff history
Rob Pike
robpike at gmail.com
Sun Mar 24 06:56:29 AEST 2024
Don't forget the Imagen's
Where is the paper tray?
in a mechanical exasperated intonation.
-rob
On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 4:08 AM Norman Wilson <norman at oclsc.org> wrote:
> Bill Cheswick:
>
> >The Unix room text-to-speech device used to announce:
> >
> >"Ding ding ding. Please add goo. This doesn’t happen very often."
>
> Since we're all nerds here, I feel compelled to correct this.
>
> The actual announcement was
>
> Help! Please add goo!
>
> The suffix was applied to a different message:
>
> Please add toner. You won't have to very often.
>
> `Goo' was some sort of pre-mix that needed frequent topping up.
> Hence `you won't have to very often,' to remind you which was which.
>
> Other messages included
>
> Please add paper.
> Printer check lamp is lit. What do you want to do about it?
> Service check lamp is lit. You're in big trouble now!
>
> All these messages were designed by Tom Killian, who wrote the
> local code that controlled the 202.
>
> Norman Wilson
> Toronto ON
>
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