Article 4538 of alt.sys.pdp10: Path: news3.best.com!news2.best.com!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.225!attworldnet!newsadm From: david.razler@worldnet.att.net (David M. Razler) Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: The True Faith Date: 16 Dec 1998 06:11:26 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Lines: 40 Message-ID: <36794982.265795064@netnews.worldnet.att.net> Reply-To: david.razler@worldnet.att.net NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.68.22.145 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 Xref: news3.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:4538 Re: the Holy Day of Dec 10 and the minor festival of Dec 20.... We must note that we are coming toward the end of the first year AD (After DEC) previous years to be numbered BC, for obvious reasons. 1 AD, like 4,7,9 and 15 AD has been/will be celebrated with 18 minor festivals 2 AD with 24 fast days 3 AD will have one major festival, though 6, 10 and 20 will each have 36 minor 5,8 and 12 AD will have 12, as will every eighth year that follows after 16 AD (to be nammed the the Jubilee Years of S,I,L,E,M and A, though the prophets say 24 AD <8/S> will seem to go on forever) 14 and 16 AD will be the years of honoring the Controller. Celebrations will be marked by the ringing of Bells. The orthodoxy prohibits any festivals in years 11 AD and requires a fast day on Nov. 16 of that year. The reform movement celebrates 11 AD and plans to celebrate like mad in the 12th Century AD with almost every year a festival year concluding with the winter solstice festival of Vax. They should be shunned, the orthodox say. High priests of the Faith shall be recognized by the large aluminum-framed module worn as a pectoral. Lesser clergy shall wear (from highest to lowest ranking) R,B and W flipchips around their necks. The eldest 12-bitters shall wear S-series chips, while the highest-ranking 36-bitters shall wear B-212s with the original resistors and scorch marks still in place. All adherants may wear G and M flipchips around their necks as a sign of faith. A recent movement of tat minority of members who "go both ways" have adopted the A-series flipchip as their symbol of faith. The central alter of the faith shall include a round vector graphics display and an almost-working ASR-33. David M. Razler david.razler@worldnet.att.net Article 4544 of alt.sys.pdp10: Path: news3.best.com!news2.best.com!newshub.northeast.verio.net!news-pen-3.sprintlink.net!news-in-east1.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!in1.nntp.cais.net!199.0.216.204.MISMATCH!audrey2.cais.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3677890C.75AD37A9@trailing-edge.com> From: Tim Shoppa Organization: Trailing Edge Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.03Gold (X11; I; OpenVMS V7.0 DEC 3000 Model 300L) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: The True Faith References: <36794982.265795064@netnews.worldnet.att.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 7 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:18:52 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.232.144.27 X-Trace: audrey2.cais.com 913821984 198.232.144.27 (Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:26:24 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:26:24 EDT Xref: news3.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:4544 David M. Razler wrote: > Celebrations will be marked by the ringing of Bells. I propose that celebrations of AD events be marked by the ringing of VT52 Bells :-) Tim. Article 4546 of alt.sys.pdp10: Path: news3.best.com!news2.best.com!news1.best.com!vnetnews.value.net!not-for-mail From: Tovar Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: The True Faith Date: 16 Dec 1998 09:03:02 -0800 Organization: Spam Haters (please remove -nojunk before replying) Lines: 13 Message-ID: <87yao8auk9.fsf@mongrel.kd6pag.ampr.org> References: <36794982.265795064@netnews.worldnet.att.net> <3677890C.75AD37A9@trailing-edge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: op111.value.net X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.6.45/Emacs 20.3 Xref: news3.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:4546 I propose that celebrations of AD events be marked by the ringing of VT52 Bells :-) No, no, no. It should be a Model 35... The VT52 is much too recent. And the mechanical bells sound much nicer and carry much further. I can still remember the characteristic sound of a parity error, and, of course, bells on the half-hour. I think the Macintosh version of 'gzip' has a comparable bell 'snd' resource inside of it, if you don't have a Model 35 lying around somewhere... (Gosh, i should extract it for LINUX once of these days. *grin*) -- TVR