11 Dec
2023
11 Dec
'23
9:21 p.m.
April 16, 2014, from the Unix room:
"I'm about to turn this terminal off,
the last one in the Unix Room. It's the
same 400MHz Pentium II I've had since
before <someone> left."
On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 11:46 AM Marty McGowan, MIT Club of Princeton <
martymcg(a)fastmail.com> wrote:
Thus following the Holmdel facility into the Halls of
Oblivion.
my current location, just E of the NJ Tpke, now splits the distance
between them.
I was in HO in the late '80s, at MH in the mid '90s, there to divide the
corporate directory.
Anecdote on the latter: The "company to be named" - i.e. Lucent had to
shell out Hundreds of 1000s to Yet Another Garage Tronics in Silicon Valley
for rights to the name -- the internet was young enough that the Name
Search committee didn't have "Dot Com" in it's dictionary as yet.
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On Sat, Dec 9, 2023, at 15:37, John Floren via TUHS wrote:
I can't believe they'd give up the building, it's a beautiful structure.
Maybe they'll use it for other groups.
john