Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!ucbvax!ucbjade!mwm From: mwm@ucbopal.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) Newsgroups: net.rumor Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories (what to put in lights) Message-ID: <405@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 07:14:50 EST Article-I.D.: ucbjade.405 Posted: Wed Mar 5 07:14:50 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Mar-86 06:48:17 EST References: <14700001@hplabsb.UUCP> <476@mmm.UUCP> Sender: network@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: mwm@ucbopal.UUCP (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) Distribution: net Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 14 Keywords: ibsys The NanoData QM/1 (a horror story all by itself) has 16 18 bit registers. These are displayed on the front of the machine so that you have a nice 8 x 36 array of lights (and the lights correspond to the registers in a pattern you'll *never* guess). When idling in the default nanocode, the box displayed "QM1" in nice big letters. Load up the PDP-11 emulation, and it says "PDP." I don't know what the 370 emulation said. We were tempted to make the machine we were building (writing?) spell it's name out - "QMC". Sometimes, I agree with ea!jejones, and think that many programmers could use a cutesypooectomy.