starr@shell.UUCP (Bob Starr) (10/21/84)
God was that funny.... It is too bad Johnny Carson can't use stuff like this in his opening monologue.. it just wouldn't have the same impact!
gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett) (10/29/84)
> We had found one subject who consistently performed well. We passed > tapes at which he had thought through an A-D converter, and after > trying to decode them in many ways, we discovered that some of > them could be passed through a few simple Unix utilities (including > rev, tr, dd [for byte-swapping], and crypt [using either the subject's > first name "Albert", or his surname "Hall" as key]) to produce intelligible > messages. Now we know how many bytes it takes to fill the Albert Hall! -- "... and it's coming right here, to beautiful <this area>" Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,nsc}!amdahl!gam [ This is just me talking. ]
davis@hplabs.UUCP (Jim Davis) (11/03/84)
> Unfortunately Bert passed on 3 weeks ago, suffering > a heart attack during an experiment. Before he died, > though unable to speak, he pointed at the still-running > tape with a look of desperate pleading. > We have digitised the tape and tried innumerable ways > of decoding it without success. Perhaps someone out > there can succeed where we have failed, so I attach > an octal dump of the digitised tape. BEGIN :-) The decoding process was obvious. Here is the result: 0000000 044411 040440 061154 071145 020164 020127 060510 066154 0000020 062040 020157 062542 072561 060545 064164 060440 066154 0000040 067440 020146 074555 073412 071157 062154 074554 070040 0000060 071557 062563 064563 064564 067157 020163 067165 067564 0000100 045040 066551 042040 073141 071551 024040 066141 067563 0000120 065412 067556 067167 060440 020163 070150 060554 071542 0000140 062041 073141 071551 060440 062156 062040 073141 071551 0000160 064045 026560 060554 071542 061500 067163 072145 071055 0000200 066145 074541 027051 047412 026150 061040 020171 064164 0000220 020145 060567 026171 074440 072557 020162 066146 020171 0000240 071551 072440 062156 067157 027145 000012 0000253 (Wait, there's more :-)) Here is an od -c for those in the audience who are slow at reading octal. 0000000 \t I A l b e r t W H a l l 0000020 d o b e q u e a t h a l l 0000040 o f m y \n w o r l d l y p 0000060 o s s e s i t i o n s u n t o 0000100 J i m D a v i s ( a l s o 0000120 \n k n o w n a s h p l a b s 0000140 ! d a v i s a n d d a v i s 0000160 % h p - l a b s @ c s n e t - r 0000200 e l a y ) . \n O h , b y t h 0000220 e w a y , y o u r f l y 0000240 i s u n d o n e . \n \0 0000253 END :-) -- Jim Davis (James W Davis) {any_of_the_biggies} !hplabs!davis davis%hp-labs@csnet-relay ------------------------------------------------------------------