From tbrunner@uci.edu Sun Apr 22 06:03:53 2001 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f3MD3q9100896 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:03:52 -0700 Received: from femail5.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail5.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.85]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.03) with ESMTP id f3MD3p707003 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:03:52 -0700 Received: from [24.10.144.183] by femail5.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010422130351.EXFN11650.femail5.sdc1.sfba.home.com@[24.10.144.183]> for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:03:51 -0700 X-Sender: tbrunner@pop.uci.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <000901c0cad2$f11b1240$82519318@Rourke.ne.mediaone.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 06:04:19 -0800 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: "Theodore F. Brunner" Subject: Re: Classical Computer Names >Those are the names of each of the actual UNIX computers; >http://netsys.syr.edu/sunix/hosts.html (didn't even need to use a search >engine to find that). In the classically-oriented office in which I once >worked, I named the three computers Klotho, Lachesis, and Atropos; but my >coworkers thought me too pretentious and refused to use the names, >preferring the uncreative "Patrick's computer," etc. > >PTR, who fondly remembers the first VAX he ever used, DEC's own "Siouxi" >ptrourke@methymna.com Then there was the Ibycus computer (are any of them still running?), the machine which introduced Classics to computing, and which was the mainstay of the TLG in its early years. David Packard named it after his cat. Ted Brunner |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Theodore F. Brunner 28802 Top of the World Drive Laguna Beach, CA 92651 Phone (949) 494-8861 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| .