[OT] Humor

[Keith Antoine]

Bob Hemus wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 20:10 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
>   
>> Bill Campbell wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008, Collins Richey wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> This is probably old news to long-time Debian fans, but:
>>>>>
>>>>> $ apt-get moo
>>>>>           
>>>> And who said that developers have no sense of humor.
>>>>         
>>> I've seen humerous comments as long at I've been doing computers, which is
>>> almost 43 years now.
>>>
>>> On the Burroughs large systems, the master fork controller was called the
>>> MotherForker.  There were comments in MCP such as shove it up the stack and
>>> hold on.
>>>
>>> The Tandy Xenix kernal hat the infamous she's sucking mud again comment
>>> when it paniced.
>>>       
>> I've been a developer off and on for most of my adult life. I'm pretty sure a 
>> sense of humor is some a developer has to have - even if it's a pretty dry and 
>> nerdy one.
>>
>> Michael
>>     
> This is kinda OT, but 25 or 30 years ago when I was teaching the
> California school systems were pushing Commodore 64 and a little later
> the 128s.  I was fresh from the music teacher job to classroom.  It was
> a bunch cheaper than the Apples and I'm pretty sure I only knew Bill
> Gates from his name on tape programs for the Vic 20s we had in our
> "computer lab".  I thought they were a pretty good system and a school
> district in SoCal (Perris High School) got a big grant to have a
> siphistcated attendance program written in MCP.  Whatever happened to
> the Commodore company and MCP?
> Bob
> To General?
>   

I was into Amigas in about 94-95 when Commadore went bust suddenly. 
Turned out that the company had
been stripped by the then CEO. Cannot remember his name today but know 
he was of middle eastern origin.

-- 
Keith Antoine AKA 'Skippy'
Practising Geriatric retired, Brain in mimi storage.
School a place where young people are supposed to learn HOW to teach themselves
and nothing else. They learn after leaving school in the big wide world.