[TUHS] Happy New Year and an amusing story from the past

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Dave can you explain how all of you managed to connect a Sun 3/50
window to a Convex? I can of course imagine how those dweebs did that
trick.

As for annoying marketing droids, I did that myself back when the
original RS/6000 came out. Interesting contraption and I never did
appreciate what it grew up into.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Jan 2015, Ronald Natalie wrote:
>
>> I guess y’all aren’t with the baptists.
>
> Hilarious!
>
> The AUUG conferences seem pretty tame by comparison; one year, we used the
> menu holders as catapults (I don't know where we got the rubber bands) and
> dotted the ceiling with toothpicks (they were still there at a subsequent
> conference).  Or am I confusing that with a Caving conference?
>
> At another (Warren will remember this one, as he was involved) we refaced
> a Pyramid poster (KNOW UNIX, THINK PYRAMID) to "NO UNIX IN PYRAMID", with
> the strategic application of napkins and some gaffer tape that we'd dug up
> from somewhere...  Gary Jackson took it well.
>
> At an early one, when Gould first came out, we social-engineered their
> booth-marketoid into giving us root access; the buggers never did pay the
> bounty, claiming that we'd cheated.  Well, yeah...
>
> At yet another, we had a Sun 3/50 window connected to a Convex, and acted
> all innocent when various dweebs did the old "echo 99k2vp..." etc trick.
>
> Sigh; I miss the AUUG conferences.
>
>> People took it pretty tongue in cheek when they were presented.  All
>> except Redman who flew off the handle.
>
> Some people have no sense of humour.  Did anyone actually, err, avail
> themselves of this unique opportunity?
>
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