PDP-8(?) as boat anchor

From: Huw Davies <H.Davies_at_latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Wed Aug 12 03:21:20 1998

At 04:42 PM 11-08-98 -0500, Poesie wrote:
>Well, I asked one of my friends who still worked there if he could check
>on any PDP type equipment; I thought it was worth a shot. apparently the
>big man heard about it and told him some story about how he had hated
>one so much as a student, he got one as scrap and filled it with
>concrete and sunk it out on the lake w/ a huge eye-bolt to connect the
>sailboat to. A moron's revenge, I guess.

Well I just wonder what about an -* that could get someone so steamed up
that they'd want to take revenge 20? years later. Of course, with my
yachties hat on, we'd use almost anything to act as a weight. My favorite
was old railway carriage wheels.

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