20 Nov
2017
20 Nov
'17
3:33 a.m.
On 2017, Nov 18, at 6:16 PM, Don Hopkins
<don(a)DonHopkins.com> wrote:
I have been wondering about that for years.
Here’s the manual! LISTREVERSE is documented on page 9-3. Maybe if I printed out the
"READERS COMMENTS" form at the back of the manual, wrote my question in big
upper case block letters, then ticked the "If you require a written reply, please
check here” checkbox, then “Fold Here” and “Do Not Tear - Fold Here and Staple” as
instructed, I could mail in the free first class pre-addressed, business reply mail, no
postage stamp necessary if mailed inside the United States envelope, and they’d write me
back a nice letter telling me what the fuck they were thinking.
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/…
<http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/pdf/DEC-20-LBMAA-A-D%20BASIC%20User's%20Guide.pdf>
-Don
The thing is, the sort of people in engineering at Digital would do exactly that. The
apocryphal case is when someone asked why the base of VMS DAYTIME was November 17, 1858
and got the following back:
http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/wizard/wiz_2315.html
<http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/wizard/wiz_2315.html>