HP releases AdvFS under GPL-2

[David Hardy]

Wow, that's a 1040 every minute!  Crazy!

Don't know about the alleged chopper pilot but Old Farmer Dave here worked
the door gunner slot on Cobra gunships and slicks and then was "promoted" to
air crew gunner on AC-130 Spectre gunships, aka Puff the Magic Dragon.  The
armed forces apparently are still using these ancient birds of prey Over
There, along with B52s, which, amazingly, are not scheduled to be retired
until 2050, long after I'm gone, so their lifespan will have exceeded my
own.  A person hasn't lived until they've been on the ground within a mile
or two of a full B52 bomb strike of 500- and 1,000-pounders.  Three of us
were squatting on the ground with bleeding ears and noses and actually
pitied whoever was directly underneath that thing.

Nine years later I was in charge of a university's program of selling DEC
Rainbows out of its bookstore.  No hard drive, two floppy drives, and two
operating systems.  Green screen.  Used it as a remote terminal for a while
to monitor the VAX systems in Marlborough from home in Worcester.  Also
logged into the old Boston Computer Society boards, sadly now defunct.



On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:59:32 -0400
> "David Hardy" <belovedbold357 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Gee, I sure hope room and board was included.
> >
> > Wait:  worked for the IRS for a while?
> >
> > (dialing favorite hit man...ding....ding...ding...freaking answering
> > machine;  ain't these people EVER at their desks??!!)
> >
> > May I ask: what county in Maine?  Spent six months there in Beautiful
> Bangor
> > after finishing Air Force boot camp and security police school...kinda
> cold
> > on them winter midnight shifts...but we, and this is so blatantly OT,
> played
> > poker in the nuclear weapons storage area gate shack while one or the
> other
> > of us took turns with the senior NCO in charge doing beer and wine runs
> to
> > the all-night store downtown.  Place reeked of pot smoke, too, and when
> we
> > got the heads up from the main base, we hadda open all the winders and
> > scurry around looking like dead-serious Cold Warriors.  Got away with it
> the
> > whole time, too.
>
> York County Jail in Alfred, Maine.
> I worked in the Code and Edit department of the IRS. This is the group
> that takes in paper tax returns, reviews them for completeness, and
> marks them up for input.  We had to do at least 60 1040s per hour. Not
> my cup of tea, but my group had 3 engineers, another group had a guy
> who claimed he was a Viet Nam helicopter pilot (but I could have
> challenged him on this because he couldn't have been).
>
>
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