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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Sunflower Farm Party Review
Message-ID: <1211@pucc-h>
Date: Tue, 18-Sep-84 23:06:03 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 18 23:06:03 1984
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> ...the entire soprano section of the Plano Church showed up to meet Jeff, but
> they had to leave early (something about a sunrise service) and missed him.

A sunRISE service?  SunSET I might understand, seeing that I didn't arrive
until about 9:00 p.m.  (It's hard for me to climb out of my coffin during the
day.)  But I'll deal with it; they're 200 miles away from me, and anyway I
prefer altos.  (Of course the young lady you introduced me to here in Lafayette
is almost a tenor!)

> We were blessed with not one, not two, but FOUR musicians to entertain us.
> We even got to hear Jeff ("where's the barbeque sauce?") Sargent play and
> sing some of his own creations.

Perhaps the other musicians were a blessing, seeing that they were darn near
professional.  My stuff may have been a blessing lyrically, but musically, by
comparison at least, it was, if not a curse, at best indifferent.  Remember,
I've only played guitar for < 3 years, and I'm not all that faithful at
practicing.

Anyway, let's drop this BBQ sauce legend; I didn't have any at Rsk's party,
since (as seems to be a habit) I arrived long after the main food was gone.

> And of course it wouldn't be a *real* bonfire without horror stories.
> We heard about...the -shudder- CDC 6500 (complete with -ugh- PROCSY),

In many ways, I'd a darn sight rather use PROCSY (Purdue Remote On-line Console
SYstem, the home-grown terminal system on Purdue's CDC 6000's) than Unix.
Chief reason is, of course, that a Vax is not a computer, and thus does not
function with more that 15 users on it; hence Unix loses much of its appeal.
The 6000's are real computers with hair on their chests; they'd probably be
fast even running Unix!  But this is not the group to flame about the obvious
performance deficiencies of Unix and Vaxen.  However, I think I'd still say
the same thing even if I were not the Purdue staff member principally
responsible for the maintenance of PROCSY....

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-- Jeff Sargent
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