More DELLness & TRON! :D

From: Bill Richman <bill_r_at_inebraska.com>
Date: Wed Jan 16 08:02:39 2002

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Brian Chase wrote:

> I'm the person that started the thread in alt.sys.pdp10. I'm still
> looking and have one unexplored lead at this point. In the process of
> searching for the whereabouts (or demise) of the Foonly F1, I've
> exchanged e-mail with a lot of interesting folks from that era of
> computer generated visual effects.

Now I'm curious. "Foonly" is used as a variable name in the "tutorial"
portion of the "Finite State Fantasies" computer comic by Rich Didday.
(See my web site for a scanned copy.) Wonder if this was a reference to
the TRON computer, or vice-versa? Or was this a geek-term like "Foo, Bar,
and Blech" already?
Received on Wed Jan 16 2002 - 08:02:39 GMT