I first uttered "There is no data, only Zuul" sometime during my senior year in high school, 1983-84. Some friends and I were at one of their houses, up very very late, while one of them was working on some data handling program in assembly language on the TRS-80 Color Computer (which each of us had and loved). D was so proud of what he'd done at one point, he urged us each to watch the screen as he ran the program and it was supposed to bring up his results.
After a slight pause, the screen filled with complete garbage characters of various pretty colors. D, perplexed, shrieked, "Where's the data!?"
I think it was close to 3:00am. My response, the line I already mentioned, was followed by literal ROTFL for several minutes. The movie Ghostbusters was still a recent memory.
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Date: 2004-06-29 06:14 pm (UTC)After a slight pause, the screen filled with complete garbage characters of various pretty colors. D, perplexed, shrieked, "Where's the data!?"
I think it was close to 3:00am. My response, the line I already mentioned, was followed by literal ROTFL for several minutes. The movie Ghostbusters was still a recent memory.
:-)
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Date: 2004-06-29 07:02 pm (UTC)