: Friday, June 19, 2020 1:41 PM
To: cctalk@classiccmp.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu
On 6/17/20 1:27 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
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>> On Jun 17, 2020, at 3:25 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk
>> wrote:
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>> https://archive.org/details/Fa
On 6/17/20 1:27 PM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
On Jun 17, 2020, at 3:25 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk
wrote:
https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
28min documentary on the last ever edition of the NY Times to be
printed using hot metal -- before they switched to what are now
And Lincoln had MN license plate “ETAOIN” on his rusted out Ford van and one of
the other guys in our “wiz kid” bunch had “SHRDLU” on his plates.
We later learned that the Eta were some kind of Spanish terrorist group and so
Neil liked that story better— we were going to terrorize the
Kind of OT:
I recall reading on some health forum that in a certain Japanese paint
factory, workers would put dried paint flakes under their tongues and then
spit them out, a-la homeopathically, to make them impervious to the
chemicals. It is believed to work by sending a signal to the gut "to
> On Jun 17, 2020, at 3:25 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk
> wrote:
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> https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
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> 28min documentary on the last ever edition of the NY Times to be
> printed using hot metal -- before they switched to what are now a
> quite choice assortment of late-'70s
On 6/17/20 12:25 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
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> 28min documentary on the last ever edition of the NY Times to be
> printed using hot metal -- before they switched to what are now a
> quite choice assortment of late-'70s minicomputers. I
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 21:59, Bill Degnan wrote:
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> Liam,
> I rescued a Linotype and gave it to Bob Roswell for his museum in Hunt
> Valley, MD USA...should you ever be in the Washington/Baltimore area.
> Syssrc.com is the URL and the museum is housed within their consulting and
> training
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 3:26 PM Liam Proven via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
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> 28min documentary on the last ever edition of the NY Times to be
> printed using hot metal -- before they switched to what are now a
> quite choice
https://archive.org/details/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu
28min documentary on the last ever edition of the NY Times to be
printed using hot metal -- before they switched to what are now a
quite choice assortment of late-'70s minicomputers. I think I spotted
a PDP, a Data General and some IBM device, but
