Naming Computers [ was: Re: A Momentous Decision ]

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Tue Oct 22 21:55:01 2002

Well, I guess you aren't an LMS or Southern fan. :)

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Tony Duell wrote:

> >
> > I'm sorry but you guys are weird. Unless required by some _at_!@#$! net
>
> How long have you been reading this list? Most people recognise we're
> weird in about 2 minutes flat :-)
>
> > system driven by paranoid corporate business concerns, I call my computers
> > by what they are. Maybe the Grid 1520 with the failed HD when I have
>
> The problem comes when you have several of the same machine....
>
> FWIW, I haven't properly named many of my machines yet. The PDP11/45 is
> 'Malard' (one 'l' to keep it down to 6 characters) -- at the time I got
> her, she was the fastest machine I owned, so she was named after the
> fastest steam locomotive. My first PERQ is 'Evstar' or 'Evening Star',
> also a steam locomotive -- the last one made for BR -- as the PERQ is in
> some ways the last truely classic computer. My other PERQ 2 is 'King
> George V', yet another steam loco -- one that was shiped to the States
> for a time, and therefore fitted with a bell -- as that PERQ has all the
> bells and whistles :-)
>
> I really must think up proper names for the P800s, other PDP11s and the
> PDP8s. They deserve naming.
>
> -tony
>
>

M. K. Peirce

Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island

"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
              
              - Ovid
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