10 Aug
2023
10 Aug
'23
4:43 a.m.
But Sir
I can't find the
ALMOST ANY
Key on my keyboard.
Please help me locate it 🙏
On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, 4:00 PM ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"you might have mail" -- nice.
Kind of like the Plan 9
"Press almost any key to reboot..."
This was from the late Jim McKie, who realized that the PC keyboard
had a few keys that would not count as a keypress.
jmk once claimed to me, with a smile on his face, that Ken said the
message was pedantic :-)
On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 12:44 PM Ron Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
My favorite MOTD is:
You might have mail.
I told one of my student operators that if he put that in there before
the morning was out, someone would be in my office to tell me they got
the message but they didn’t have any mail.
I wasn’t expecting it to be one of my senior programmers. Well, it
only said you MIGHT have mail.
Somewhere there was a post circulating around with humorous MOTDs.
That was on it, I believe.