Re: the NEW and somewhat improved #popcorn FAQ!

[dougmc@comco.com (Doug McLaren)]

In article <lang0104.781888150@gold.tc.umn.edu>,
Brian J Langenberger <lang0104@gold.tc.umn.edu> wrote:

|                 The Official Guide to Channel #popcorn
|                                 and
|                       The Tuffbot User Manual
|
| inhabitants.  All of this stuff is pretty unimportant, but it's something
| to read for when you get really really bored.


| 1) Why is this place called #popcorn?
... 
| was going on.  To break the monotony, I decided to make some popcorn because
| it's such a typical hacker food.

And you're such a typical hacker, of course.

| First, I opened the cover of my old (now junked) Apple //e.  I poured some
| popcorn oil inside.  Then I poured in a bunch of popcorn kernals.  Then I
| ran a lot of processes to build up heat, and voila!  Popcorn!
| After making popcorn in the CPU of an Apple //e, I offered it to everyone.
| Pretty soon I was doing it all the time, and it became a trademark.

Lots of processes on an Apple //e generating lots heat?  cute.
The thing puts out so little heat, even full of cards, that it doesn't
come with a fan (though you can buy one if you like.)
All those 74LSxxx chips ... wait, that's the ][+ - the //e has far fewer
chips, but I don't remember if most of them are 74LSxxx or not.

| 2) What goes on in channel #popcorn?
| 
| We don't discuss popcorn, which is a bit odd.  But we do discuss everything
| else imaginable.  The place is a chit-chat channel.  As for rules, there's
| only two:
| 
|     1 - Don't annoy the inhabitants
| 
|     2 - Always keep tuffbot opped

Of course, it had to be there, didn't it?
 
| 3) What is tuffbot?
| 
| Simply put, tuffbot is a program designed to automatically op certain

EYE MUST HAV3 OPZ 0N MYZ CHANNELZ !

| 4) Where did tuffbot come from?