walter%mit-htvax@sri-unix.UUCP (09/27/84)
From: Walter Hamscher <walter@mit-htvax>
[Forwarded from the MIT bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.]
Professor Petra Hechtman of the Archaeology Dept has an Egyptian
tombstone written in Hieroglyphs on an Onyx C8002 system running
ONYX IV.II that he needs to read. The Onyx system that the
block was written with has died (legend has it that it is archived
in the temple of Tymsharin). He needs to get the data off the
rock soon so that the exact date of Graduate Student Lunches can
be calculated (the most recent prediction fixes the date of the
next "bologna eclipse" as Friday the 28th at noon in the Third Floor
Playroom, hosted by David "Saz" Saslov and Mike "Mpw" Wellman).
According to Data Gene-rock, the original Filer was 1/4 cubit,
6250 spd (strokes per digit), 90 RAs, up to 10K BC. Anyone who has,
knows of, or has chips off the original device that might be
able to decipher the stone, please contact Prof. Hechtman at
x5848, or at /dev/null@mit-htvax.