Sep 2, 2008
Oh Lord won’t you buy me a PDP-10
My friends all hack Vaxen; I must make amends
Hacked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends
So Lord, won’t you buy me a PDP-10
Oh Lord won’t you buy me an RM-03
Faster disk access is trying to find me
I wait for Disk Ready each afternoon ‘till 3
So Lord, won’t you buy me an RM-03
Oh Lord won’t you buy me a disk pack so round
I’m counting on you, Lord, please don’t let me down
God, I need a scratch pack; there’s none to be found
So Lord won’t you buy me a disk pack so round.
Early hacker songwriting. From another file on that server we learn that:
21963283741 is the only number such that if you represent it on the PDP-10 as both an integer and a floating-point number, the bit patterns of the two representations are identical.
Bet you didn’t know that, huh?
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