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<andlabs>
hey watch where you use that pun you'll get a lot of VIC fans with pitchforks at your door =P
<andlabs>
and also that's incredibly hardcore
<tunixman>
hahaha yeah well, I'm one of those fans with the pitchforks but yeah, I saw it once on usenet and couldn't resist.
<tunixman>
I mean I guess there was a VT connected to a campus mainframe and my cousin (the editor of the alumni paper using troff) showed me how to write a couple of lines of text in VI and then send it to her line printer to take back to school with me...
<tunixman>
It was a long time before I realized that's what had happened though, so I don't really count that...
<tunixman>
I'll tell that story for cheap laughs though.
<andlabs>
good
<andlabs>
also troff users represent
<tunixman>
hahah yeah... she's not even a programmer or even an engineer, she's literally a journalist.
<tunixman>
(not like "oh she's just a journalist" but like "she's a solid journalist and does a lot of active deep dives into the alumni of the university...
<tunixman>
including a lot of "women in physics" research for my grandmother.
<andlabs>
cool
<andlabs>
meks ure that info is published =P
<andlabs>
and maybe also the custom macros, if any
<andlabs>
(and typesetter font files, if any... fingers crossed)
<tunixman>
man this was the early 80s, she's long since retired I think. I don't even think she has a computer anymore, just an iphone.