---------------------------------------- Note 30 P-Notes 10/8/79 7:17 pm lynch / udplato / unidel Here are more personal notes from Dr. Graper. Please add any funny ones he sends to you. ---------------------------------------- Response 1 of 12 *** A Story by Dr. Graper *** 10/8/79 7:17 pm lynch / udplato / unidel * graper / udps / unidel 7/19/79 12:47 pm * * j wilson / p / unidel 7/19/79 12:42 pm * * c moore / udauth / unidel 7/19/79 12:53 pm * The inversion of the command you specified is an experimental command as yet and should not be used in a lesson to be used by students. However, the ingenuity of a microtutor =#mhonk= command, coupled with your PLATO Air-Horn Peripheral, cannot be denied. *** I agree, but don't understand! ---------------------------------------- Response 2 of 12 *** A Story by Dr. Graper *** 10/8/79 7:18 pm lynch / udplato / unidel * graper / udps / unidel 7/19/79 1:04 pm * Dear Bill: Oh, come on! I'm sorry! Jeepers, I merely forgot!! No reason to get into such a huff! I mean, you kept forgetting to bring in Zippy all those times, so you're not free of guilt when it comes to memory problems. Look, today I went into the bathroom with a fresh set of underwear, pants and my favorite shirt, laid those clothes on the toilet seat, got out a fresh bar of soap, stood in the bathtub, pulled the shower curtain shut and then turned on the water to be "brought back to life," just like they say in the TV ads. The pipes went "Pfut, pfut" then died. Full of air. No shower. No being brought back to life. And me, having taken that long bike ride and putting off a shower till morning. Peggy won't get near me now. I went to the manager's office and they said, "We're ---------------------------------------- Response 3 of 12 *** A Story by Dr. Graper *** 10/8/79 7:18 pm lynch / udplato / unidel * graper / udps / unidel 7/19/79 1:09 pm * They were sorry. Fuck, what a cheap apartment for so much fucking money! Boy, I'm pissed with that place. It's steaming hot at night, then they take away your water. You can't even take a shit. Two of Cain's turds are in dry dock in our dehydrated john right now. Fucking Damn! Your Friend, Dave Graper ---------------------------------------- Response 4 of 12 10/11/79 4:58 pm baum / udperuse / unidel Does The Good Doctor know you're putting these in here? ---------------------------------------- Response 5 of 12 *** A Story by Dr. Graper *** 10/12/79 5:00 pm tripp / udperuse / unidel grapenotes / cerl 7/3/79 2:12 pm brooks / pea / cerl * graper / udps / unidel 5/17/79 6:20 pm * Dear Comade: Dammit, I've sent you two___ pnotes and each time I get this message saying, "Not receiving pnotes because of people trying to fill up my pnote file" and so on. If this one gets through, I'll be glad to write you a really neat pnote and stuff and Christ, I'd even give you this third page of the story, "Bitches on Wheels," a really weird story about female bikers who terrorize a Midwestern town and make all the menfolk their sexual slaves so that I might make a few bucks selling it to BLACK-HORSE Adult Books, Inc. and make some money for once by writing. Honest to god, there are people at these parties I go to who say, "Oh, you're a writer! You'd like Carl!" and I meet Carl and he turns out to drink a lot of hard stuff and looks at my beer in disdain and says, "Graper? Yes ---------------------------------------- Response 6 of 12 *** A Story by Dr. Graper *** 10/14/79 1:04 am tripp / udperuse / unidel * graper / udps / unidel 8/25/79 9:05 am * Dear Hamir: I really do exist, and before May of this year had shoulder length hair, wore USMC surplus clothing and smoked lots of dope. Then, I realized how desperately I had to move out of my parents' house, so I went looking for a job. To aid in my job search, I cut my hair to an acceptable longish, bought some nice suits and never used "Fuck" in public. This not only pleased my parents, it also got me a few offers from homosexuals. This I didn't dig at all, and then I got the job at PLATO and they didn't care if I wore the vestements of the pope to work so I've let my hair grow long again but do have a leaning towards three piece suits because I do really like to look like one of the President's Secret Service Bodyguards. As of yet, I only have one and am forced to wear my father's old white "Arrow" shirts almost all the time with my jeans. Your Friend, Dr. David J. Gra"per ---------------------------------------- Response 7 of 12 *** A Story by Dr. Graper *** 10/14/79 1:05 am tripp / udperuse / unidel grapenotes / cerl 8/30/79 9:54 am memory / cip / cerl * graper / udps / unidel 8/30/79 10:07 am * Dear Hamir: My three piece suit is not really white but beige. It isn't a disco type suit, either. I got it because, when Chip Carter, son of the pres, came here he was surrounded in men with beige three piece suits. Loving that "secret-agent man" image, I went out and bought one myself. That's about it. Your Friend, Dr. Graper ---------------------------------------- Response 8 of 12 *** A Story by Dr. Graper *** 10/14/79 1:07 am tripp / udperuse / unidel grapenotes / cerl 9/25/79 9:51 am brooks / pea / cerl * graper / udps / unidel 9/25/79 8:12 am * Dear Walter: You don't know how reassuring it is to know that all of you at CERL are still alive, well and interested in my goings on. What was the last story you got sent? I think there is more material. Now that they've given me this job at PLATO, things can get to be a real drag. Yeah, I'm doing a lot of what you could call "Industrial Grade Writing" for upper staff members and stuff. All in all ok for the money, I guess. Better than being a janitor (even though it did pay better). Damned if it isn't cold here. I'm going to put on another shirt and get this thing done today. It's this program they have me reworking with a little editor and stuff and, Christ, I've got to get it done. Your Friend, Dr. Graper ---------------------------------------- Response 9 of 12 10/15/79 9:08 pm lynch / udplato / unidel * graper / udperuse / unidel 10/11/79 4:02 pm * Dear Bill: Trememendous oversight. Have dumped pnotes. Octal. Abort. Rectify Execution Error Pronto. Flip flip gate, and/or random access logic is fun. Read only memory, IC chip cookies. Your Friend, Dr. Graper ---------------------------------------- Response 10 of 12 12/10/79 7:40 pm lynch / udplato / unidel * graper / udps / unidel 12/10/79 12:55 am * Dear Bill: You can tell when things are getting academically tight when your dear friend Dave starts drinking loads of Coke and eating these "Mr. Pep" pills. Boy, but this is the life! Snuggled up to the musimatic playing Christmas Carols, the door locked so bigfoot and John F. Kennedy the vegetable and other aliens can't get in and yet another full can of Coke waiting for me downstairs in the machine! Oh boy! Your Friend, Dave ---------------------------------------- Response 11 of 12 1/31/80 9:10 pm jessica / udperuse / unidel * graper / udps / unidel 1/18/80 9:38 pm * Dear Jessica: I would just like to complain that a certain mutual friend of ours, a Mr. Stainton, not only came into the Willard Site inebriated but then, quite intentionally and with malice, gave all of the microtables in his lesson very obscene names! Not only did he read these names aloud in the presence of children, he also decided (quite aloud, I assure you) to extol the virtues of liquor on one's programming! Then, as if passing from his manic state into a depressive one, he began pondering the implications of the UDPLATO project refusing him a staff signon and sadly kept typing in "stainton/udps," "stainton/pso," and a host of other impossible signons again and again distracting many____ children from the pleasures of =udbagger= and =speedway=. Perhaps you could best make clear to Mr. Stainton that the Willard site is not___ a drunk tank!! Your Friend, Dr. Graper ---------------------------------------- Response 12 of 12 *** A Story by Dr. Graper *** 2/4/80 6:28 pm healy / udps / unidel * graper / udps / unidel 2/4/80 6:21 pm * Dear Mr. Healy: Welcome to the glorious world of PLATO, the interactive computer system that finds time to both do your most complex calculations, convey interpersonal messages and give you ha-ha stories from me. Your Friend and Comrade, Dave Gra"per