On Saturday, January 16, 1999 3:29 PM, Chuck McManis [SMTP:cmcmanis_at_freegate.com] wrote:
> At 06:36 AM 1/16/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >ObCC: Around 1980 or so, I knew somebody with a license plate that said
> >"Unix: Live Free or Die". Was this issued by Bell Labs? And who has one
> >they'd like to sell?
>
> The New Hampshire vanity plate (state motto "Live Free or Die") UNIX was
> registered to Bill Shannon who worked at Sun (still does actually). Some
> vendor did some fake plates for one of the Uniforum conferences but I don't
> know if Bill got any royalties :-)
I think the vendor that issued these fake plates was DEC.
Bob
Received on Sun Jan 17 1999 - 07:37:39 GMT
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