OK, I have to chime in just one last time here... The local Hilton (now a Radisson) is right across the street. I seem to recall several adventurous souls initially booked the Hilton, and then decided that The Inn of No Return was much less expensive.
You gets what you pays for. :P The stories, on the otherhand, are priceless and continue to live in infamy. I love it. A minor historical update: The "Bates" closed up shop as a hotel a year or so after the '92 Workshop. It did a brief stint as the ambitiously named "Heaven on Earth Inn", which didn't last all that long. It was then "The Maharishi Vedic University" for a year or two or three before closing entirely. The property was purchased by an out-of-state developer with ambitions of renovation, but funding failed to come together. There's currently some discussion among a group of local real-estate developers considering renovation as office space or upscale condominiums, and I think it's likely that they'll put a project together that will work. Alas, no action on any front yet. The building lies vacant; the city recently took action to further secure all points of entry in order to discourage adventurers from exploring or establishing free-lance residence in the property. -dan. On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Gabe Goldberg wrote: > David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > If this quest turns out to be an otherwise dry run, let me know. The > > > U. of Arkansas periodically holds surplus equipment auctions, and it's > > > not uncommon to still see a fine vintage Selectric go through. > > > As long as it doesn't require a stay at the Bates Inn, or getting > > mooned by the locals, I'm in...8-) > > > (PS -- For those of you who weren't there, the Univ of Arkansas hosted > > the legendary VM Workshop once. Accomodations were .... *interesting*, > > and the big dinner event involved steam trains, a trip into the WAY back > > beyond of Arkansas, and a unscheduled display by the natives. I'll let > > Gabe tell the tale of the Bates Inn...) > > Um, yes. As Dan noted, the fully qualified name is The Bates Mountain Inn. > The outside sign tastefully just called it The Mountain Inn, but after a > night or two, someone realized the true name, that it was part of the same > chain as the lodging where that fine documentary called Psycho was filmed. > > Things floating in the pool. Fire extinguishers ripped from their nests in > the halls. Most hall lightbulbs missing. Fire exits chained shut. Elevator > walls oozing ... dark liquid. Serious stains on sleeping room walls. I > suspect that my memory is mercifully hiding other details; we need to hear > from Roger Deschner, he found a few. The epilogue at the next year's > Workshop was Dan *attempting* to make amends by offering a raffle prize, > the raffle only open to survivors of TBMI. I won, and I've refused to let > my wife dispose of the prize, The Arkansas Road-Kill Cookbook. > > And just to say *something* about APL, I installed APL at Mitre to > kick-start interest; it was an old/free DOS APL version which someone had > disassembled and ported to CMS. Since I had the "source" available I was > able to enhance it, making it work better with CMS, until user demand let > us spring for a real/supported -- but maybe OCO -- version. > > -- > Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. (703) 941-1657 > 6580 Bermuda Green Court, Alexandria, VA 22312-3103 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <http://www.cpcug.org/user/gabe> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
