the orgins of the electric keyboard was RE: Do Forever Loop

Cool.  I've heard Al talk about it for so long that I assumed, even though
he never claimed credit...

I wasn't wrong about it being a TAATOOL, was I?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Jackson [mailto:richardjackson@richardjackson.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 8:13 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Do Forever Loop
> 
> 
> Let's give credit to Robin Chakravarti for first proposing 
> the "increase
> keyboard voltage" and "terminate user" commands at a Common 
> Conference in
> the early 80s.  Terminate user had a parameter for user and a 
> parameter for
> degree.  Degree could be either *FAMILY (caused permanent 
> sterility) or
> *IMMED (left bleached bones in the chair).  These 
> "requirements" caused some
> problems for IBM since, at that time, they did not recognize 
> that "joke"
> requirements could exist.  They had to make a formal serious 
> statement about
> these requirements.  It was somewhat challenging for Doug 
> Anderson to write
> the reply.
> 
> Richard Jackson
> (speaking only for myself)
> 
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