On 09/07/2010 08:32 PM, Clark Morris wrote: > On 7 Sep 2010 15:14:25 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > >> ---------------------------------------<snip>---------------------------------- >> >>> For those who are not familiar with it, Datamation used to have some >>> excruciatingly funny articles, some of which were collected under the >>> title "Faith, Hope and Parity". I didn't think much of their news >>> coverage, but the humor was priceless. >>> >>> >> -------------------------------------<unsnip>----------------------------- >> I particularly remember their description of the "Postal System Input >> Buffer Device", in one of their April issues. >> >> If you can find a copy of the book "A Stress Analysis of a Strapless >> Evening Gown", it's in there. > > Speaking of humor, does anyone know if the appendix to the > Westinghouse DOS Dump Restore program is available on-line. I am > still trying to figure out how it ever got past the legal department. > BJF - Botched Job Foreground is just one of the definitions. The > error scenario with companies doing research in Filet of Old Gnu was > hilarious. > > Clark >> >> Rick
I afraid we finally canned our copy a decade ago, but it was the only DOS manual we retained after migrating from DOS, and we kept it for the entertainment value for over a decade after leaving DOS. As I recall it also had a lengthy, humorous, and irreverent discussion about how you couldn't believe IBM's track listing utilities because they lied about the contents of the count fields and displayed what IBM thought should be there rather than the actual contents, which in some cases was very significant. -- Joel C. Ewing, Fort Smith, AR [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
