From archer@PEAK.ORG Mon Apr 22 13:40:23 MDT 1996 Article: 170 of alt.culture.us.1980s Path: noc.nyx.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.BSDI.COM!engr.orst.edu!news.PEAK.ORG!odo.PEAK.ORG!not-for-mail From: archer@PEAK.ORG (Chris Goodwin) Newsgroups: alt.culture.us.1980s Subject: Re: First CPU in 1980s? Mine-TI-994/A Date: 20 Apr 1996 02:28:56 -0700 Organization: CS Outreach Services, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4laaoo$8u2@PEAK.ORG> References: <3168CEEB.2824@tsrcom.com> <316C5984.50F5@ingr.com> <4l751n$nd9@engr.orst.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: peak.org In article <4l751n$nd9@engr.orst.edu>, David Goodwin wrote: > >10 INPUT "WHAT IS YOUR NAME";A$ >20 PRINT "HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO EDITH" >30 GOTO 20 > >This is a program that used to make me laugh so hard... It originated >with my bro and a friend of his (I think).. It was always a kick to type >it out on the computers in the lame computer department at department stores It was Rex's sister Edith whom that originated with, as far as I know. -- archer@peak.org --> http://www.peak.org/~archer Listkeeper: Libertarian Fiction (libfic-l) mailing list and Jack Chalker (chalker-l) mailing list. E-mail for details. Oceania: A New Country In Development --> http://oceania.org