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From: blarsen@spider.uio.no (Bjorn Larsen)
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Subject: Re: Sears VAX
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Date: 25 Aug 89 12:23:27 GMT
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This reminds me of the time I and a pal went to Bedford to
attend the TOPS-20 Monitor Internals course.

Two days into the course, my pal used FILDDT to patch the 'Welcome'
message on Training's DECSYSTEM-2060.

This system was used for lots of different courses, and
when the students sat down to log on the next day, they were greeted
with this message:


Welcome to DECSYSTEM-20 in Blue
** Nothing Sucks Like a VAX **

@

(Historical note: In Bedford they had a 2060 in the basement, but it
was packaged in a blue, DECsystem-10-style cabinet. That's where
the 'DECSYSTEM-20 in Blue' came from)

My pal went home to Norway the next day.

No sense of humor, these americans...

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Bjorn Larsen                       blarsen@gollum.uio.no
USE, University of Oslo, Norway    ...!mcvax!ifi!gollum!blarsen