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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Fri Jul 19 04:28:02 1991
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 91 01:30:32 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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ajberlin (Aaron J Berlin):
Hey, whats up? How are you doing? Why don't you leave me some mail and tell
me about yourself. I would really love to hear from you. I live at Fiji.
You can write me a real letter if you'd like at 28 The Fenway
Boston, Ma 02215 or you
could give me a call at (617) 267-0908. Nice talking to you!! Hope to hear
from you soon!!!!!!!!
p.s. I have two things to leave you with:
1. Be excellent to each other, and
2. Party on dudes!!!!!!
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ankleand (The Analog Kid):
I will be at Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne FL, this summer starting
1 July 1991.
Direct e-mail: ank@hulk.mlb.semi.harris.com
Default e-mail: ankleand@athena.mit.edu
Office phone: 407-724-3585
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cobol (Gopalkrishna Rajagopal):
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gamadrid (George A Madrid):
To remember the name of the two old guys in the balcony on The_Muppet_Show.
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glassw (William B Glass):
Have some caffeine!
-- the addictive drug of choice for nine out of ten
late night nerds!
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
The 1991 Computer Bowl, Round 2 answers and round 3 questions (answers
to r3 and q's from r4 on Sunday/Monday):
Answers (Round 2):
1. John Searle
2. Babbage
3. Hotel--Del Webb's High Sierra Hotel and Casino
4. The Alto
5. Albert Wong, Safi Qureshey, Tom Yuen
6. Sun
7. Addison Street
8. Intergalactic Digital Research
9. Shell Sort
10. Binary Coded Decimal
11. Sperry Rand
12. Grolier's
13. Hewlett Packard, Packard-Bell, Ferranti-Packard
14. Poet---Lord Byron
15. Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton
16. "The Cuckoo's Egg"
17. "Difference Engine"
18. EPICAC
Questions (round 3):
1. (Holding up comptometer) This is a comptometer from the computer
museum. The question is---Who developed the adding system for this
machine? Was it Pascal, Leibnitz, or Babbage?
2. The bit is a very common and important computer term. Who first used
the word "bit"? Was it John Tukey, Donald Knuth, or John McCarthy?
3. LOGO has been a popular education language for children. Who created
LOGO?
4. Atari is the name of a personal computer company. But it is also a
word in the Japanese language. What does Atari mean?
5. Among the early machines in the history of computers were the ENIAC,
the ILLIAC, and the MANIAC. MANIAC was an acronym for mechanical and
numerical integrator and computer. The question is---Where was the
MANIAC built? Los Alamos, Livermore, or Cambridge, Mass.?
6. The word Sun in the company name Sun Microsystems is an acronym.
What do the letters S-U-N stand for?
7. For years, BASIC was one of the most commonly used programming
languages for personal computers. The word "BASIC" is an acronym. What
do the letters stand for?
8. PLATO is the name of an educational software enviornment. PLATO is
an acronym. What does it stand for?
9. In August 1981, nearly 10 years ago, a major new personal copmuter
was introduced. What was the computer?
10. If you wanted to square all the integers from 1 to 10,000...which
copmuter would you pick to get the job done most quickly. The TRS-80
Model One or the ENIAC?
11. While today we talk about the 80386 and the 80486 Intel processors,
one of the earliest INTEL chips was the lowly 4004. What was the first
commercial application for the 4004? Was it used in an early personal
computer, a factory process controller, a Japanese calculator, or a
frequency modulator?
12. What do you call a Local Area Network method that routes messages
through each workstation on the network in turn?
13. 3COM is a well-known name in the Local Area Network field. The
company name is short for three separate words, each of which begin
[sic] with the prefix "COM." What are those three words?
14. The database program DBASE IV is an upgrade of DBASE III. Which is
an upgrade of DBASE II. For what operating system was DBASE II
originally written?
15. Deep Thought is now considered to be one of the world's best
chess-playing computers. But way back in 1967, a computer, for the
first time, beat a serious chess player during a state chess tournament
in Massachusetts. The computer's designer was Richard Greenblatt. What
was the name of the computer? Was it BORIS, Matemaster, MAC HACK FOUR,
or EN PASSANT?
16. In 1679 a famous mathematician perfected the binary system of
notation. Who was that mathematician?
17. Arcade-style video games are often thought of as male oriented. Yet
a woman named Donna Bailey designed one of the most successful video
games. Which game was it---Centipede, Tempest, or MS PAC-MAN?
18. According to an article in the IEEE Spectrum magazine, what was the
first video game to become popular with women players as well as men?
19. Computer Space, Pong, Spacewar, and Space Race are all names of
computer video games. Which of these, in 1970, became the first
commercial video arcade game?
20. A byte is usually defined as eight bits. What is the term for four
bits?
21. The Haloid Process describes a process in which of the following
activities: manufactoring ICs, soldering components, or photocopying?
22. What color is the stripe painted on th raised floor of the machine
room in the AI Lab at MIT?
23. While working at Xerox, Gary Starkweather is credited with inventing
the laser printer. When did that happen? Was it 1969, 1973, or 1977?
24. I'll give you two names. You tell me in what field they do
research: Berliner and Schank.
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llm (Lynn L Mcdonough):
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marc (Marc Horowitz):
I read a paper for 3 things -- humor, opinions and what's going on in
the world. The front page gives the newspaper's opinions. The
editorial page is for humor, 'cause I usually can't believe anyone
thinks that way, and the comics provide a good view on the world.
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Willis F. Marti Internet: willis@cs.tamu.edu
Director, Computer Services Group, Dept of Computer Science, Texas A&M Univ.
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mjdaly (Mark J Daly):
Strat '78 Standings
NY Yankees 22 11 - .667
Boston 12 3 1 .800
Pittsburgh 15 12 4 .555
Los Angeles 0 0 5.5 ---
Texas 6 9 7 .400
Houston 3 6 7 .333
Montreal 2 10 9.5 .166
Baltimore 3 12 10 .200
LEADERS
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AVG | SLG | OBA
Cruz, HOU .368 | Murray, BAL .833 | Cruz, HOU .455
Murray, BAL .361 | Scott, BOS .735 | Singleton, BAL .455
Hargrove,TEX .343 | Stargell, PIT .679 | Hargrove, TEX .439
Stargell,PIT .333 | Singleton,BAL .629 | Yastrzemski,BOS .382
Lynn, BOS .320 | Rice, BOS .612 |
HRs | RBIs | Runs | SB - CS
Stargell, PIT 6 | Stargell,PIT 18 | Parker, PIT 27 | Moreno, PIT 8-2
Evans, BOS 6 | Murray, BAL 16 | Stargell, PIT 27 | Bumbry, BAL 4-0
Murray, BAL 5 | Parker, PIT 15 | | Remy, BOS 4-0
Rice, BOS 5 | Rice, BOS 10 | | Cabell, HOU 2-1
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therese (Therese):
Bits and pieces, bits and pieces.
People.
People important to you, people unimportant to you cross your
life. Touch it with love and carelessness and move on.
There are people who leave you and you breathe a sigh of relief
and wonder why you ever came into contact with them.
There are people who leave you and you breathe a sigh of remorse
and wonder why they had to go away and leave such a gaping hole.
Children leave parents; friends leave friends, acquaintances
grow apart.
Enemies hate and move on.
Friends love and move on.
You think of the many who have moved into your hazy memory.
You look on those present and wonder.
I believe in God's master plan in life. He moves people in and
out of each other's lives, and each leaves his mark on the
other. You find you are made up of bits and pieces of all who
ever touched your life, and you are more because of it, and you
would be less if they had not touched you.
Pray to God that you accept the bits and pieces, in humility and
wonder, and never question and never regret.
Bits and pieces, bits and pieces.
- L. Channey
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tytso (Theodore Y. Ts'o):
Here, by Tower of Norwich,
And the people come and go,
Here, by the Bells of Norwhich,
I tell them what I know:
All shall be well,
I'm telling you;
Let the winter come and go.
All shall be well again, I know.
"All shall be well,
and all shall be well,
and all manner of things shall be well."
"Would thou wit thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Wit it well: Love
was his meaning. Who shwed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee?
Love. Wherefore shewed it He? for Love... Thus was I learned that
Love is our Lord's meaning."
- Dame Julian of Norwich
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
As many of you know, Im working at Sun Microsystems.
So, you can reach me for the summer at:
Home: 269-D Bush St.
Mountain View, CA 94041
415-964-9233 (answering machine)
Work: Building MTV23
Room 219
e-mail: warlord@eng.sun.com
(if its an emergency, although I DO log into
MIT often enough that warlord@mit.edu is
good enough for most things)
See you next fall!!!
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zammit (Michael J Zammit):
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