Hi Phil,
I worked at a multi--national food company in the early '90s. Their
Userid scheme was first 5 letters of surname, first letter of first
name. One guy, Mr. M. Pinchbeck became irate when people kept referring
to him (PINCHBM) as "Pinch Bum".
I didn't get excited about mine (SPIEGED). One day, however, I was
approached by a user who said: "Hey Ed, do you think you can come to my
desk and help me with TPX?"
Another guy, Mr. C. Cadore corrected people's pronunciation of his
userid (CADOREC said as Ca-Dork) by telling them it should be said as
Cadore-C.
When I was studying CompSci at UofT, the best school in Canada (sorry
Phil, but, beat it the pants off of UofW in the '70s), one of our TAs
(Mr. J. Hogg) insisted that his surname was pronounced "Hoag" (i.e. not
"Hog").
The SysOp on the Graduate School PDP-11 gave him this userid: PIGG
Good times.
Regards,
David
On 2023-07-13 17:22, Phil Smith III wrote:
I've seen various schemes used for creating up-to-eight-character userids, all
truncated as needed, of course. These are IDs I've had, won't tell ya where
each was (and omitting just firstname, just lastname, or intials):
1. First initial, last name, plus a number as needed: PSMITH, PSMITH1
2. Last name || first name, with number if necessary, but always including
first initial: SMITHIIP, or SMITHIP2 if needed
3. First three of last name, first two of first name, plus a number:
SMIPH03 (I've always wondered how they'd deal with Kyle Fuchs or Tyrone Shipman)
4. First initial, last name, truncated to max of six with a two-digit
number: I was PSMITH87; friend was TSMITH99-we never found out what the next T.
Smith would get: would they reuse a hole, if any, or go to TSMIT100?
Anyone got any other variations? This is purely a curiosity item, no agenda.
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