William Couture wrote:
>> From Crash:

So how do you know Bill?  I ran into him a few years back at MERL
(Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, I think) in Cambridge MA, and
occasionally here or there.  Once was at the embedded systems show in
Boston, and more recently at the local Market Basket supermarket.

> We were bad news.  :-)  He was very proud that he made
> _every_ dean's list... including the "on probation"
> ones.

Bill wasn't entirely innocent either, by the way.

I remember waking up around 2:00 in the morning to a strange sound outside
my door.  In the semi-dark I could see a plume of something on the floor
eminating from the door.  It turned out to be Bill and a few others blowing
anti-holes under my door (a gold star to anyone who can explain what
anti-holes were) with a vacuum cleaner.  They stuck to everything despite
attempts to clean them up.

I think Bill was along for some of the steam tunnel exploration trips, and
maybe the time we conned the boiler room staff into letting us wander aroun=
d
everywhere by letting them think we were inspecting the place.  There were
some unintuitive connections between old buildings we found that way.
Having master keys to most of the campus made further after hours
exploration possible too.

> We also came up with a way to do fast audio A/D
> using CMOS switches and a bunch of resistors.  This
> was after we blew up the Chem department's PDP-15
> by wiring an R-2R ladder to the disk drive
> controller's track servoing.

Hmm.  I don't remember this one.

> And then there were the laundry tickets.  That was
> his schtick but he borrowed my micrometer to make it
> happen.  Remind him of that.  I still have that
> micrometer, too.  NSK made good stuff cheap then.

Yes, I remember the laundry ticket affair and using the micromenter.  That'=
s
how we figured out that two computer punch cards glued together were just
about the right thickness, 14 mils if I remember right.


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