Subj : Amibinkd and scheduled po
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Thu Mar 10 2016 07:05 am

-=> Kurt Weiske wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 TL> They sure were, nice machines in their day, though early versions of the
 TL> OS had some interesting bugs - there used to be long lists of ways to
 TL> bring up a Guru Meditation. :)

 KW> A local TV station back in the 80s always used to crash with a GM
 KW> message - I'd wake up, flip through the channels and see it. I suppose
 KW> the station went unattanded from 2am-6am or something like that!

Hahaha cute, I've never seen the Guru out in public myself. :)  Reminds me of
the various information displays in shopping malls that you'd see with a BSOD,
revealing the fact they ran on Windows. :)  One interesting peek at the OS
underneath a public facing screen are the information screens for the trams in
central Melbourne, Australia.  I did have occasion to see one of them reboot
once, and I noticed a rather familiar looking penguin - yep, they run Linux,
and furthermore, the screens actually run upside down - the reboot screen was
upside down, but when the information software is loaded, it inverts its
output, so the display is the right way up. :)
.... Doesanyoneknowhowmuchitcoststogetaspacebarrepaired?
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