Using Fedup

[Mickey]

On 06/18/2015 06:08 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 06/18/2015 02:48 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 06/18/2015 02:32 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>> Should go fairly well if your F20 is up to date. You may have to wait
>>> for a full moon and shave a goat under it, but you should be OK. :-)
>>
>> And, just as with getting SCSI to work, always use black candles!
>
> I was on the ANSI SCSI committee back in the day (like 30 years ago) so
> I had "special powers" and could get by with dark blue candles and only
> having to pluck a live chicken on alternate Tuesdays to get my drives to
> work. I still have a bunch of the old 220/330 ohm DIP packs (the blue
> ones) to terminate cables if you need any. :-)
>
> I was also incredibly stupid back then, so I mistakenly volunteered and
> got stuffed onto the ANSI C committee as well. At least that had the
> silliness of PJ Plaugher of Whitesmiths on the committee, too:
>
> Under "Bugs" on the Whitesmiths' C users' guide for "onexit() (their
> library's version of what became "atexit()"):
>
>     "The type declarations defy description and are still wrong."
>
> And under "Bugs" for "cpystr()" (their version of "strcpy()"):
>
>     "Forgetting the terminating null is mildly perilous."
>
> PJ was nothing if not, uhm, "clever". :-p
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Rick do you remember the old S100 bus on computers, it was very 
important to have the bus terminated ?