<div dir="auto">Regarding<div dir="auto">It's still fun to think about. .</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On the lighter side of life</div><div dir="auto">Perspectives in eternity</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The Ghost in the Machine</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What happens to core images when they finally fade away? Do they go to some binary form of heaven ? Do their bits roam free on some ethereal plane of existence 🤔?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">According to the laws of physics, nothing gets created or destroyed. It merely changes state.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Would a V6 image be reincarnated as itself or would it come back as a new Linux variant?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">What happens to the electrons and magnetic fields that composed its essence when it was "alive" flowing through copper channels and silicon valleys?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Time to journey up the mountain and contemplate the existential nature of silicon based "life forms"</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(Geek humor for a Saturday morning 🌄)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 6:42 PM ron minnich <<a href="mailto:rminnich@gmail.com">rminnich@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I was admiring this list of cool artifacts, thinking I had none, then remembered in the corner I have a 64K PDP11 core plane, which, when it failed, had a V6 kernel image in it.<div><br></div><div>Now, that was 50 years ago, so magnetic donuts or no, that image is long gone, but it's still fun to think about.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, I have a DECTape from the late Jim McKie, somewhere, but I forget what was on it.</div><div><br></div><div>I still have my "documents for use with ..." book, and the BSTJ, but so do many of you ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, somewhere, I also have a budget page from a document I found in a dumpster at Murray Hill. This would have been 2007, or so, when lots of people were leaving and lots of offices were being "dumpster lobotomized"; I saw the doc in a dumpster and ripped out that page. It seemed of interest.</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM Daria Phoebe Brashear <<a href="mailto:shadow@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">shadow@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 18:35 Greg A. Woods <<a href="mailto:woods@robohack.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">woods@robohack.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">At Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:10:28 +1000, Rob Pike <<a href="mailto:robpike@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">robpike@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Your Most Prized UNIX Artifacts?<br>
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> An original, hand-wire-wrapped Jerq board, later renamed Blit because of<br>
> marketing. Also the original mouse, made by Prof Nicoud's lab and signed by<br>
> him on the bottom.<br>
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The mice that came with the DMD-5620s, the Dépraz Mouse, "Made in<br>
Switzerland" (one of mine says "Type D 85 / P") looks very similar. I<br>
have one in an original AT&T package too.<br>
</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ah yes. Mice. I still have two new-in-their-boxes DEC Hawley puck mice. VSXXX-AA, with two rollers.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">They kept tracking reliably whereas the ball variant always got gunked up and skipped, but our DEC mice tended to succumb to Nettrek disease, where the left button would get clicked to death, and the replacements were inevitably the ball version.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I never managed to source a wheel version at the time to just carry with me. Got two years later, planning to give one to a friend a few months older than me for his collection. Cancer intervened and he is several years gone now, alas.</div></div></div>
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