On Aug 6, 2014 12:54 PM, <scj@yaccman.com> wrote:
>
> While on this thread, I have to share my favorite Model 37 TYY story.
>
> The Model 37 was a mechanical marvel--under the hood it was filled with
> levers and cams and all manner of strange mechanisms.  Dennis Ritchie had
> one at home long after most of the rest of us had moved on to glass
> teletypes.  It mostly worked, although as it aged the mechanical systems
> got a bit rickety and had a tendency to insert an extra blank character
> into the line you were typing, especially if you were typing fast.
>
> The last straw for Dennis happened late one evening when he was doing the
> usual housekeeping after compiling a large program:
>     rm *.o
> (after all, disc space was very limited in those days) and he got back the
> message:
>     .o not found

ouch.

Another Model 37 classic:

"values of beta will give rise to dom!"
[ http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/dmr/odd.html]