44 responses total.

and some responses to force nsep

And a 3red unfortunatley NOT NEW RESPONSE.

and a NEW response.!

Hurray!

and another new response!

A response gap of almost 6 years between #4 and #5! Is this a
record? It's almost as large a gap as it's possible to have on
Grex at this time.

Aww, man, if I'd seen the date, I'd have waited until it was exactly
six years to respond!  Oh well.  Close enough.

What is the largest possible gap to have on grex?  And I thought
the 1984 dates looked odd... didn't someone once say it was a time
warp or something?

Well hmm, when did Grex first go on line for staff testing and
configuration? It was a few weeks before it opened to the
public. Sometime in June 1991 I think.

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No discussions here are regularly scheduled. They are all
irregular.

I thought the '84 dates were a glitch...
,what's wrong with stray commas?
,why shouldn't they work?

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Aha.

Backtalk is your friend :)
I'm actually on today from regular telnet (gasp, I got on)
What was this item about again?
Who wants to explain the 1984 dates?  I think I read something on them before
but I've forgotten since...

If you do an 'only 0' to look at the item text, you will see
that this item is about nothing at all. The honesty is
refreshing. Most items that are about nothing at all pretend to
be about something.

Okay, well let's pretend this item is about something then.  Any ideas
about what we should pretend this item is about?

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Only your allergenist knows for sure.

I think it has something to do with computers reseting to '84 when their
internal clock goes screwy, lee.  md explained it once, but I don't remember
the exact way it works.

Resetting to 1984 seems strange... I could see if something reset
to 1900 or 2000 or even 1950... but 1984 is such a specific year...
UNLESS someone did it on purpose (isn't there a book called 1984?

<lee, who really needs to go read more literature stuffs after
doing too many economics problem sets>

With respect to the allergy, what is it about yellow boums that you
are allergic to... are you allergic to boums of other colours or
the color yellow (as opposed to the color purple) in general?

Disclaimer: I don't know what a boum is.

The noise an allergenic flower makes when it explodes.

noises have colours?

^[[35mYou bet.^[[0m

depends on what you're smoking.

candy cigarettes?

Probably not.

There was nothing screwey about the clock when the responses in 1984
were entered.  They were, in fact, created in September of 1984.
Besides, the "magic" date in Unix is December 31, 1969 (19:00).

Hmm...didn't know that.
So what accounts for the gap between the computer being started up in 84 and
grex opening to the public in, what, 91?

The computer used in 1984 is from another galaxy, long ago and
far away.

"Magic date" for unix?
<now has Summer of '69 stuck in her head>

Ah the summer of '69: Woodstock! Magic indeed.

No, 1984 is not magic as far as Unix is concerned. I assume that
these 1984 items were entered on M-Net back then, and simply
copied over here.

My guess would be more that they were before that, but I may be wrong.

That would violate the principle of Occam's Razor.

The item & responses were not entered on m-net.

That's what I was thinking.

So when and where were they entered.  Enlighten us.

So when and where were they entered?, rather.

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