25 Mar
2016
25 Mar
'16
12:54 p.m.
On Thu, 24 Mar 2016, scj(a)yaccman.com wrote:
The other TTY story that surfaced happened to Dennis.
He had one of the
last model 37's as his home terminal, and it was getting quirky. The
vibration of the mechanism occasionally caused a blank space to be
generated that he hadn't typed. In those days, it was common to delete
the .o files after compiling because disc space was precious. So Dennis
typed "rm *.o" and Unix replied ".o not found".
Ah; an oldie but a goodie... And who hasn't done that? To this day, I
still check the "rm ..." command before hitting CR, 30 or so years later.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."