24 Apr
2018
24 Apr
'18
5:49 a.m.
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018, Dave Horsfall wrote:
Well, this would never do, of course, as it required
us to take down our
Unix box (one of the first in Oz) to run RSX, so my then-boss wrote a
program (in FORTRAN) so we could do it under Unix; said LV-11 actually
spent most of its time plotting biorhythm charts with a program written
by said boss (who also gave me my first taste of grass, and I hated it).
One minor detail that I forgot: it was the (mostly male) computer
operators who asked us to plot both their biorhythms of their (mostly
female) partners, and themselves, to see if they were compatible...
I think we (not me) began charging their department per plot, as that
thermal paper was pretty pricey... Hey, it was all funny money, after
all!
This was the 70s/80s, man...
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."