<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I always forget that TUHS can't handle pictures. Perhaps Warren will let my post through, but in any case here's a link to the mail, reformatted but otherwise intact, with photos, on Mastodon.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/113322062117546253">https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/113322062117546253</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">To pique your interest, here's the first paragraph.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-status__content" tabindex="0" style="border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:24px;font-family:mastodon-font-sans-serif,sans-serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:2px 0px 0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;color:rgb(0,0,0);overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;outline:0px"><div class="gmail-status__content__text gmail-status__content__text--visible gmail-translate" lang="en" style="font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><p style="font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;unicode-bidi:plaintext"><i>In August 1981 we had a persistent problem with the RP06 on our PDP-11/70 crashing disks. It even crashed once while the DEC repairman was standing next to it trying to figure out why the previous pack had died. We collected a few dead packs, and they were forming a pile. Lillian, never one to miss an opportunity, suggested building a mobile.</i></p><p style="font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;unicode-bidi:plaintext"><i><br></i></p><p style="font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;unicode-bidi:plaintext">-rob</p></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div>