Re: "Phone" on VAX/VMS
I loved Phone. It was one of the first things I experienced with computers, back in 1980. I found it fascinating, sitting in an oil exploration company's offices in a small town in the UK and chatting with the night ops in Houston TX.
At another company, I left my terminal unlocked when I went to the loo. When I came back, I had a post-it from the head of ops saying "write out 10,000 times, 'I must lock my terminal when I leave my desk'" A couple of lines of DCL dumped the text out 10,000 times to a file, I then called the op with Phone and piped the file into his Phone window. We were friends and he saw the funny side, eventually... 10,000 lines takes a while to display on a serial terminal! :-D
Biting the hand that feeds IT
