Tags and previous owners (was RE: [rescue] What do you guys think about this 4D/35)

[rwalkup]

on 7/11/01 8:29 AM, Patrick Giagnocavo at patrick at zill.net wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 02:02:18AM -0400, Loomis, Rip wrote:
>> My favorite tag was the "Property of Compaq CAE"
>> tag on the GDM-1962 monitor...implying that
>> Compaq used to use Sun boxen for some CAE
>> task (motherboard layout?).
>> 
>> Any other good ones?
>> 
>> --Rip 
> 
> I used to own a NeXT Cube that I bought directly from an NSA employee.
> 
> It had a big sticker on it that said something like "Unclassified computer -
> do not store classified data on this computer" or whatnot.
> 
> Nice guy - though he forgot to delete all his personal files.
> 
> I read his resume - he had multiple top secret clearances.
> 
> His specialty was game theory as it applied to things like guaranteed
> response times for fighter aircraft (if you want a 5 minute response time,
> but the first plane or base is taken out, how do you guarantee a certain
> response with a certain number of bases, etc.).
> 
> He inadvertantly left a few Mathematica notebooks on his machine.  It was
> kind of neat to see how he solved problems like that.
> 
> Then I felt bad about having the data, so I deleted it.
> 
> ../patrick
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Too much gin, tequila, and grapefruit juice, but that guy ought to be there
with (confessed spy) Richard Hanson.  It's inattentive jerks like him that
put my shipmates at greater risk than we already were.