https://www.math.princeton.edu/people/john-conway
Creator of "the game of life" -----Original Message----- From: cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2020 1:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: cctalk Digest, Vol 67, Issue 12 Send cctalk mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctalk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of cctalk digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Discord (Anders Nelson) 2. Re: pdp11/05 key? (Liam Proven) 3. Re: pdp11/05 key? (Eric Smith) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 13:40:39 -0400 From: Anders Nelson <[email protected]> To: Jay West <[email protected]>, "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Discord Message-ID: <CAJ2mpAhK_iwO0J8mD2_9E64LED=cirkpxmvdb-gxpquqrpm...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Medal of Honor is one of my all-time favorite games. -- Anders Nelson On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 4:09 PM jwest--- via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > Perma-invite > > > > https://discord.gg/CwhYHY2 > > > > From: Derek Newland <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 7:47 PM > To: [email protected]; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic > Posts <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Discord > > > > Hi J, it appears the invite has expired. Any chance to get a fresh one? > Thanks! > > > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 12:55 PM jwest--- via cctalk < > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > I believe I sent the invite to my game channel, NOT the new classiccmp > server..... please use this instead: > https://discord.gg/gV6PKYW > > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk <[email protected] <mailto: > [email protected]> > On Behalf Of jwest--- via cctalk > Sent: Friday, November 15, 2019 11:26 AM > To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' < > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > Subject: Discord > > Greetings folks > > > > The past few years I?ve become fairly focused on a particular old > 1999/2000 ww2 fps computer game. Of course playing it but I?m also on the > development team for the game (EA has given up on it, but we still put out > new releases, maps, patches, etc.). As a result of that, I pretty much live > on Discord text/audio chat these days. If you send me an email I will > eventually see it and may even respond heh. But if you send me anything on > Discord I?m going to see it immediately. If any of you are on discord, I am > ?Todesengel#9624?. Feel free to add me as a friend and that way you can get > me usually immediately. I am not leaving the hobby, nor am I saying not to > email me at the usual address. But a lot of you do talk to me > semi-frequently and I?m just saying discord will get to me far quicker. > > > > In addition, mostly as an exercise to see how to do it, I set up a > ClassicCMP discord server. That Discord server is NOT meant to replace this > list, nor should it be taken to signal any less commitment on my part to > keeping this list running. They are fundamentally different things; Discord > is great for real time text chat back and forth. There are also audio and > video channels if people want to use that to talk verbally or via video. To > get on that server, here is a semi-permanent invite: > https://discord.gg/U8Skw5g Joining the server gets you to all the other > folks who may join the classiccmp discord, not just me. Of course, that > could be zero ? Like I said, I just did it as an exercise, and discord is > how some of my family and friends stay in touch. But it is there if peeps > want to use it. > > > > I?d rather not turn this into a long debate of whether discord is good or > bad or anything like that. I?m just saying it?s there, and it?s quicker to > get ahold of me that way at times. > > > > Best, > > > > J > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Derek Newland | (828) 234-4731 | <mailto:[email protected]> > [email protected] > > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 23:51:29 +0200 From: Liam Proven <[email protected]> Cc: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: pdp11/05 key? Message-ID: <camtencgrlp8yhosqmtazm2+emq9cffffzjjexztjmhod9xb...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Sat, 11 Apr 2020 at 13:55, Chris Elmquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > This might be one of those jokes that if you have to explain it, it looses the punch ... but I?ll try, > > There used to also be something called a Hong Kong Whore House, similarly staffed with young Asian women, but they didn?t make core planes there. I've been to HK and I was never aware of this! Thank you for the clarification. :-D -- Liam Proven ? Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: [email protected] ? gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: [email protected] Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven ? Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 ? ?R (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 02:14:12 -0600 From: Eric Smith <[email protected]> To: Norman Jaffe <[email protected]>, "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: pdp11/05 key? Message-ID: <CAFrGgTRg_xc3_QSNaL79h5cP-LhjoQD-xBaEWGQ_L3aUtG=b...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:35 AM Norman Jaffe via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > I hope that you mean 'hardware porn', not 'hardcore porn'... :) > Trivia: for a while in the mid-to-late 1990s, a Google search for "computer porn" had as the number one result one of my web pages, of that title, containing images of computers with covers removed. I could see from the server log that the search was fairly popular, but nevertheless I believe that most of the people doing the search were not satisfied with the result. 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