Subject: A silly question

From: [email-masked] (Magnus Olsson)
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1993 18:06:04 GMT

How are you supposed to pronounce "P?S/8"? And what is the '?' doing 
there anyway?

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From: [email-masked] (Charles Lasner)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1993 02:42:04 GMT

>How are you supposed to pronounce "P?S/8"? And what is the '?' doing 

I hope other members of the Poly Question Society (P?S) aren't reading this,
but I am going to reveal the information without anyone first filling out
the 30-page Request-for-Information form.

The Poly Question Society (P?S) is a loose affiliation of hackers from the
old days.  The only common link they have is that all of them (me included)
attended the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. (The name is some variant on
this today, probably Polytechnic University or something.  Back then, one of
our ongoing puns was the current tentative new name for the place.  Someone
suggested Polytechnic Engineering of New York State - PENYS for short :-).)
(Note: The organization is *not* known as the Polytechnic Question Society
as is suggested by some uninformed individual.)

All P?S members are known for their expertise on some random computer system
of the time, some for multiple systems.  Many P?S members have contributed
to P?S/8 for the PDP-8, etc. (At present, I am the largest, by lines of
code, etc.  My weight has little to do with this :-).)

Many P?S members are or were employees of Digital.  Some have gone onto newer
startup companies attempting to relive the old exciting days of when a 
company is doing something new, not stagnating on VMS, etc.

The proper pronunciation for P?S/8 is therefore Pee Que Ess Ate.

Any further informat will definitely require filling out the 30-page Request
for Information form.  (Note: to date, no one has ever successfully done so.)

cj "Questionably yours" l