[Info-vax] Folks not even one question about May 28th?
Arne Vajhøj
arne at vajhoej.dk
Mon Apr 27 20:41:13 EDT 2009
JF Mezei wrote:
> Sue wrote:
>> like what is are you doing in your spare time that has to do with May
>> 28th?
>
> On this day in history...
>
> 1987 Soviet Union Mathias Rust
>
> 28th May 1987 : A 19 year old West German, Mathias Rust, flying a light
> plane undetected from Helsinki to Moscow and lands safely in Red Square
>
> 2009 United States Sue Skonetski
>
> 28th May 2009 : A 29 year old American, Susan Skonetski, remotely guided
> a cruise missile from new England to HP's corporate headquarters in
> California, freeing VMS from HP's stranglehold and allowing VMS to
> displace Windows and Linux as industry standard platform within 5 years
> of this key event in history. Sue founded a reborn Digital Equipment
> Corporation, now the world's largest software/hardware maker and went on
> to be the world's richest female, having displaced Oprah and the Queen
> of England. This key event in history was broadcasted on the net to VMS
> enthousiasts who were given live video feeds from the cruise missile's
> guidance system.
Neither funny nor appropriate.
Arne
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