[Coco] old archives was Re: dbg.l

[Stephen H. Fischer]

Hi,

> Early on August 24th, 1970, a van loaded with six barrels of explosives 
> blew up just outside the East Wing of Sterling Hall at the University of 
> Wisconsin campus in Madison. The bombing was carried out by four men in 
> protest of America's involvement in the Vietnam War.

http://www.25thida.org/TLN/tln5-32.htm

> The bombing was directed against the Mathematics Research Center, a 
> U.S.-Army-funded facility,

http://www.jsonline.mobi/newswatch/119369749.htm

http://www.leemark.com/sterlinghall/index.html

Two or three years earlier and I very well have been there. DOW?

?

> > I never got to play with a CDC machine. Was it fun?

The most fun I had was playing starwars, I typed SOS twice and the game 
ended.

The best graphics was a zero gravity game of "X" chasing "O".

I had all the time I wanted all to my self on a $20,000,000 Super Computer 
(CDC6600) .

Well, it was at 2 AM and I needed to test my software.

The CDC3600 at Wisconsin I probably did more damage to it when I failed to 
turn it off when the AC failed.

I kept reading the manual over and over and it said turn the computer off 
when the Red lights come on, Yellow was OK.

Actually it should have been turned off as soon as I detected the AC had 
failed.

The backup tapes have failed by now, that's why we all must have copied our 
floppies to CD or they have been lost.

SHF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Willard Goosey" <goosey at virgo.sdc.org>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] old archives was Re: dbg.l


> On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 06:58:02AM -0700, Stephen H. Fischer wrote:
>
>> I may have lived   ~ two miles away for a couple of years and spent many
>> days much closer. (And weekend nights, I operated the Super Computer in 
>> the
>> building that was blown up. NOT! it was unharmed, in crates ready to be
>> shipped back to CDC.
>
> Demolition, or did the Chemistry Club blow themselves up? ;-) New Mexico
> Tech tore down a building once, and I was traumatized by it.  I loved
> that creaky old building!
>
> I never got to play with a CDC machine.  Was it fun?
>
>> Want to send the maintainer a message?
>>
>> "I maintain the most popular archive for the OS-9 Operating System."
>> http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~pruyne/
>>
>> ftp://chestnut.cs.wisc.edu/
>
> A little late, it's been gone for, what? Ten or fifteen years?  Time's
> fun when you're having flies. ;-)
>
> Willard