This hobby is odd. And we're getting to the end.
We get to see some of the things that have 666 somewhere on them but don't have much of a story to them.
Years and years ago, we didn't have terminals, much less computers, on our desks. We had to go to the "terminal room" to actually do something with a computer. These terminals didn't have monitors. They had paper. You typed on the keyboard and the terminal printed it on the paper. Then, as if by magic, and after only a few seconds, the terminal then would print something that the computer had come up with. In other words, the only way we had to do our work was through a command-line interface.
We were doing development for something that was running on Unix. On Unix all the processes running on the system have a process ID. Occasionally I would notice that the PID for something I was up to had a special number. I kept some printouts.
More than once I had been marked.
A Starbucks card somebody gave me as a gift marked me.
Peggy has given me several baseball cards that are numbered "666."
4 comments:
I'll give you a dollar if you can tell me what the holey tear-off strips on old computer paper were called.
This patent calls them "detachable longitudinal marginal strips with tractor feed holes." Is that worth a dollar?
Wow! I vaguely remember reading that the DLMSWTFH had a shorter name. But now I wonder if what I remember was somebody encouraging readers to come up with a whimsical name for it.
Yeah, It's worth a dollar.
Hey, Chuck,
We were having breakfast out on Saturday and I noticed the tourists at the table next to us had a box of Voodoo Doughnuts. Those clever Voodoo people -- two of their locations have phone numbers that end in 666. I thought of you. Check it out. http://voodoodoughnut.com/contact.php.
P.S. We always called the holey tear-off strips "shreddies." Same thing if you pull a piece of paper out of a spiral notebook.
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