<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">as i recall, the mobile lasted a fair while.<div>presotto sometimes lifted it up at the top crossbar, but when we noticed that</div><div>the top wire holding it up (into the ceiling) was noticeably stretching, it was taken down.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 17, 2024, at 2:40 AM, Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><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; 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"><div style="font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: 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></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: 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></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant-emoji: 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</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div>
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