Computer (museum) registers [was RE: Modules for LINC-8]

[der Mouse]

> The professor who used the machine is quite tall, over 2 meters, at
> least - and is described by many as "Norway's (largest/greatest)
> scientist".  One time in the 1970s, he and a colleague of comparable
> stature were at a DECUS or DECworld or somesuch meeting.  The
> conferancier, when receiving them, asked - "Are all Norwegians this
> tall!?".  Immediately, his colleague replied - "No - we were the only
> ones who could fit on the plane.". :-)

I spent the second half of 2002 in Tromsoe (at Universitetet); one of
the people there was, I think, two metres three.  He told me of one
winter when the snow accumulation reached something like 247cm - not
quite the nice round two and a half metres people were sort of hoping
for....  The line I remember from him was something like "I'm not used
to walking through snow above my head". :)

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