[sebhc] Out of the museum and into the lab.

[William Elkins]

Hmmmm... How did they know it wasn't a wolf (H89) in sheep's (H19)
clothing? Could have been hidden mass storage like an audio cassette
or tape punch inside.

Bill Elkins

On 2/16/06, West, Ronald S. <RONALD.S.WEST at saic.com> wrote:
> Last week the guys in our lab were trying to rebuild a (rather expensive)
> Sun server. They needed to get into the console program which requires a
> terminal connected to the serial port in order to do this. Normally we would
> have hooked a laptop up and used the terminal program for that. Problem is
> the computer is classified and we can't hook any of our (unclass) laptops up
> to it. Solution: I suggested I bring in my H19 "dumb" terminal, which has no
> storage like a laptop. That passed muster and I brought it in the next day.
> Hooked the thing up, it worked instantly and impressed the h--l out of
> everyone (God, I love it). The engineer doing the work asked me to leave it
> there for a week to be sure he didn't need it later.
>
> I was taking the H19 out of the office yesterday to go back to its
> comfortable home in the storage room at my house. Entered the reception area
> of my office and a couple of the techno-types standing about said "Wow! What
> is that?" and I proceeded to give them the tour (head getting bigger all the
> time). Got in the elevator and a couple of the [young] techno-types from one
> of the other companies in the building greeted me with "Wow! What is that?"
> and, during the explanation, tried out the keyboard saying "cool!".
>
> Thought you folks might enjoy that story.
>
> Ron
>
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