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- From: steve@crc.ricoh.COM (Stephen R. Savitzky)
- Newsgroups: alt.callahans
- Subject: Babbage's Birthday Bash Dec. 26 / Party Jan 2
- Message-ID: <STEVE.92Dec22174833@styx.crc.ricoh.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 01:48:33 GMT
- Sender: steve@crc.ricoh.com (Stephen R. Savitzky)
- Organization: RICOH California Research Center
- Lines: 77
-
- The Mandelbear appears briefly and says, "There two events happening
- at Grand Central Starport (SF Bay Area), the next two consecutive
- Saturdays.
-
- "THIS Saturday, December 26th, is Babbage's 200th birthday. In case
- you've forgotten, he's the inventor of the stored-program computer
- (and incidentally of vaporware). In his honor, we are having a
- garage sale of mostly ancient computer-related junk. You know, Z80's,
- 8" floppy drives, possibly-repairable monitors, and the like.
- Anybody need a boat anchor?
-
- "NEXT Saturday, January 2nd, the Flowercat and I are celebrating our
- 17th wedding aniversary. It's the usual Starport potluck party,
- Callahans realspace, filksing, and so on. RSVP not required; presents
- not expected; kids, friends, and musical instruments welcome."
-
- He walks over to the bulletin board and posts a map:
-
- Map for Grand Central Starport: 343 Leigh Ave. San Jose, CA 95128
- = overpass + stopsign * light /\ Freeway on/offramp >,< one way
-
- Oakland BB L S M
- NNNN AA E H E
- .... SS L A R
- I880 CC A S I
- I880 OO N T D
- /I880\ MM D A I
- StevensCreek====W.SanCarlos**WSanCarlos*WSanCarlos*WSanCarlos*<S
- StevensCreek====W.SanCarlos**WSanCarlos*WSanCarlos*WSanCarlos*>J
- \I880/ BB L L M
- I880 AA E 343E <<--343 E
- I880 SS L I Leigh R
- I880 CC A G I
- I880 OO N H D
- I880 Scott**Scott.Scot+.Scott.Sco+tt.Scott I
- I880 BB L L A
- I880 AA E E N
- /I880\ SS L I .
- //I880\\ moor**<Parkmoo//*.Parkmoor.*Park\\ark.*oor
- S<N.I280.I280.I280.I280I280==.I280.I280=I280.I280.=.I280.I280=S<L
- ..N.I280.I280.I280.I280I280==.I280.I280=I280.I280.=.I280.I280=S..
- F>N.I280.I280.I280.I280I280==.I280.I280=I280.I280.=.I280.I280=S>A
- Moorpark.oorI880Moorpark.Mo**>ark.\\park*Moorpark.*ark.// M
- I880 BB L E
- .... AA E R
- SSSS SS I I
- SantaCruz CC G D
-
- if (lost) {
- Grand Central Starport is located at 343 Leigh Av, San Jose. It
- has a rock garden in front (the white picket fence is gone), green
- paint, and is bigger than it looks from the street.
-
- if (using(280)) {
- Take the Bascom/Leigh exit from 280 (it's just South of
- I880/CA17), head North on Leigh (i.e. toward the "center" of
- San Jose). There will be a stop sign at Scott (the first
- major cross street apart from the frontage roads, one of which
- you will have exitted onto) and a light at W. San Carlos (the
- next cross street after Scott). 343 is the 4th house *before*
- W. San Carlos on the left, which is the only side on which
- you're permitted to park.
- } else if (using(880)) {
- Get off 880 on Stevens Creek/W. San Carlos and head East.
- Turn Right on Leigh and find a place to park. 343 is the 4th
- house from W. San Carlos on the right.
- } else if (taking(bus)) {
- W. San Carlos is on several major bus routes. If you pass the
- Taco Bell at the corner of Richmond (going East), you've gone
- one street too far.
- }
-
- if (parking_left_on(Leigh) == 0) {
- Go on across W. San Carlos and park in the Safeway lot.
- }
- if (really_lost) call( (408)294-6492 );
- }
- --
- \ --Steve Savitzky-- \ 343 Leigh Ave \ REAL HACKERS USE AN AXE!
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- \_________________________________________________________________________
- \ --Steve Savitzky-- \ 343 Leigh Ave \ REAL HACKERS USE AN AXE!
- \ steve@crc.ricoh.COM \ San Jose, CA 95128 \ Free Cyberia!
- \ w: 415-496-5710 \ h:408-294-6492 \
- \_________________________________________________________________________
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