One of the really good stories about John Drumhiller, during the early development of Devcom Information System (PI), was when you were working away in the afternoon and John would come in for the first time in a week and tell every one to go home, that he needed the machine. He rarely gave any reason, just that he needed the machine. The next mooring you would come in early and find John asleep under a table with empty six pack cartons and McDonalds boxes all over the floor. In a very limited discussion you would find out that he had implemented the Resize command so in worked in place rather that copy from file to file. He would get up go home and not be seen for another week or so. His wife used to call the office to see if anyone had seen John in the last week or so. Did anyone know that John actually wrote one of the first programs to catch satellite transmissions from space. He was working for Hushes Air Craft at the time. He stuck 8 PDP8's together and had the signal bounce from one system to the other so he had time to process and store the data without overflowing the small buffers. Message: 7 Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 23:15:58 +1000 From: "Ross Ferris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: PI Open is going away To: "U2 Users Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Don't forget to mention "the Drumheller(? Drumhella?) Trick !" Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage - an Evolution in Software Development
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