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On Tue, 14 May 2024 22:40:50 -0600, lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> wrote:

On 2024-05-14 14:31, Char Jackson wrote:

On Tue, 7 May 2024 10:09:03 +1000, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> >> wrote:

My first computer had an 8080A processor (very new at the time) and 1k
bytes of RAM.

<snip>

The front panel bore the logo "IDSFA-80". If anyone asked what IDSFA
stood for, I could tell them it doesn't stand for anything.

Nice. I see what you did there, although it took a second.

Many years ago, the company I worked for played a softball game. For the occasion, the manager bought us all T-shirts with the company name on
them. We all had the choice of what name to put on the back.

I chose 'ITYNA'.

About halfway through the game, one of the players on the opponents team approached me and asked "Isn't your name 'Phillips'?"
I answered "Yes", and she asked "So why does your shirt have "ITYNA" on
it (she pronounced it out, "Iteena"), and I said "I thought You'd Never Ask".

After a few rounds of "But I am asking", and " I thought you'd never
ask", she suddenly got it.

ITYNA FTW!




--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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On Thu, 8 May 2025 12:05:49 +0100
"Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

On Tue, 14 May 2024 22:40:50 -0600, lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> wrote:

On 2024-05-14 14:31, Char Jackson wrote:

On Tue, 7 May 2024 10:09:03 +1000, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid>
wrote:

My first computer had an 8080A processor (very new at the time) and 1k >>> bytes of RAM.

<snip>

The front panel bore the logo "IDSFA-80". If anyone asked what IDSFA
stood for, I could tell them it doesn't stand for anything.

Nice. I see what you did there, although it took a second.

Many years ago, the company I worked for played a softball game. For the occasion, the manager bought us all T-shirts with the company name on them. We all had the choice of what name to put on the back.

I chose 'ITYNA'.

About halfway through the game, one of the players on the opponents team approached me and asked "Isn't your name 'Phillips'?"
I answered "Yes", and she asked "So why does your shirt have "ITYNA" on
it (she pronounced it out, "Iteena"), and I said "I thought You'd Never Ask".

After a few rounds of "But I am asking", and " I thought you'd never
ask", she suddenly got it.

ITYNA FTW!

This wasn't posted by me; it could be that Arlon's gone back to trolling.

FU to aue only

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On 5/8/2025 5:05 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:

On Tue, 14 May 2024 22:40:50 -0600, lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> wrote:

On 2024-05-14 14:31, Char Jackson wrote:

On Tue, 7 May 2024 10:09:03 +1000, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org.invalid> >>> wrote:

My first computer had an 8080A processor (very new at the time) and 1k >>>> bytes of RAM.

<snip>

The front panel bore the logo "IDSFA-80". If anyone asked what IDSFA
stood for, I could tell them it doesn't stand for anything.

Nice. I see what you did there, although it took a second.

Many years ago, the company I worked for played a softball game. For the
occasion, the manager bought us all T-shirts with the company name on
them. We all had the choice of what name to put on the back.

I chose 'ITYNA'.

About halfway through the game, one of the players on the opponents team
approached me and asked "Isn't your name 'Phillips'?"
I answered "Yes", and she asked "So why does your shirt have "ITYNA" on
it (she pronounced it out, "Iteena"), and I said "I thought You'd Never
Ask".

After a few rounds of "But I am asking", and " I thought you'd never
ask", she suddenly got it.

ITYNA FTW!

Many years ago, I worked with a fellow named Jeff Langford (sp?) who
wrote some sort of useful code he named TINA (TINA Is Not an Acronym).
That seems to come from the same sort of warped minds that were
previously involved in this thread.
--
Jeff Barnett


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On 09/05/25 04:38, Jeff Barnett wrote:

Many years ago, I worked with a fellow named Jeff Langford (sp?) who
wrote some sort of useful code he named TINA (TINA Is Not an Acronym).
That seems to come from the same sort of warped minds that were
previously involved in this thread.

There was also an operating system called XINU (Xinu is not Unix).

--
Peter Moylan peter@pmoylan.org http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW

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On 09/05/2025 00:18, Peter Moylan wrote:

On 09/05/25 04:38, Jeff Barnett wrote:

Many years ago, I worked with a fellow named Jeff Langford
(sp?) who
wrote some sort of useful code he named TINA (TINA Is Not an
Acronym).
That seems to come from the same sort of warped minds that were
previously involved in this thread.

There was also an operating system called XINU (Xinu is not Unix).

EINE was a 1970s text editor. EINE Is Not Emacs.

Its successor, ZWEI, Was Eine Initially.

--
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Sig line 4 vacant - apply within


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In article <vvjf1i$28555$2@dont-email.me>,
Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:

EINE was a 1970s text editor. EINE Is Not Emacs.

Its successor, ZWEI, Was Eine Initially.

Also FINE (Fine Is Not Emacs), and THIEF (This Here Isn't Even Fine).

-- Richard

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