leres@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Craig Leres) (09/17/87)
(Note the lack of cross-posting.)
Appended is the header of the Dec Wars posting I got in 1982; it
includes author credits. It may be slightly reformatted since the
only copy I have is now a latex source. Drop me a note if you'd
like a copy. (But I promise to ignore requests that are posted to
the net...)
Craig
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From ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!hastings Fri May 14 23:11:07 1982
Subject: Dec Wars !!
This is what comes of so many hours deeply submerged in UNIX and VMS,
thoughts moiling around while debugging system core dumps. Thoughts
carefully kept in check, hidden from the light of day (for obvious
reasons), until one day ... Perhaps it was the Coke. Perhaps ... no,
let us just say that we found a fairly harmless way to vent these
frustrations, these things that nobody within 50 miles could understand.
The network, yes, the network. They'll understand!
I'm not going to take the blame for this alone. It's those guys at CWRU
who first tried to stick it all together; this is merely an extension of
that effort. If anybody can finish it, please do. The bar room scene
is courtesy the folks at cwruecmp, as is much of the (dis)continuity.
This is quality stuff, folks. Special thanks to Douglas Adams, Bob and
Dinsdale McKenzie, and the Firesign Theatre.
Alan
Send subpoenas to:
Alan Hastings St. Olaf College (where's that??)
Steve Tarr Carleton College
guilt by association:
Dave Borman St. Olaf College
Barak Pearlmutter, Clayton
Elwell and Mark Honton Case Western Reserve University
(no, they're not enlisted)