AOS "manual"

[Bruce Ray]

"How to Goad and Levitate Your CHAOS System" is a spoof by some renegade 
Data General employees on the venerable "How to Load and Generate Your AOS 
System".  It was a professionally-done manual with the same look and feel as 
the original manual, but with substantially different text content.  Its 
contents are irreverant and humorous, and unfortunately only partially in 
the DG archives.

DG's published ads were pretty funny also: "Batch is a Bitch", "It's too 
Hairy to be a Minicomputer", "The Bastards say 'Welcome'", "Sorry it Took Us 
So Long", "The Big Mouth Strikes Again" to mention a few.

Data General - 40 years old this year.

Bruce

Bruce Ray
Wild Hare Computer Systems, Inc

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Kennedy" <chris at mainecoon.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" 
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Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 08:34 PM
Subject: Re: AOS "manual"


> John Floren wrote:
>
>> Just got my hands on the local library's copy of The New Hacker's
>> Dictionary, 2nd ed (couldn't pass it up even though I've read it
>> online), and I noticed that the entry for AOS mentions a joke manual
>> called "How to Goad and Levitate your CHAOS System". Does anybody have
>> a copy of this? Bitsavers?
>
> You might try tracking down Terry Dowling, last at Adobe, and see if you 
> can get a pointer to a copy.
>
> What would really be nice are the spoof advertisements that they did, 
> including the Infos ad (a spoof on the "Rinso" ads, with an arm holding a 
> box labeled "Infos" coming out of a Zebra SMD drive) and the "Look for the 
> DG label" parody (sung to the tune of "Look for the union label").
>
> -- 
> Chris Kennedy
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