Jim,

Yep.  Strange.  When I grow up I want to be just like him.  Different car
though.
jt

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From:   Jim Phillips
Sent:   Friday, November 14, 1997 2:33 PM
To:     James Trudeau
Cc:     HP3000-L
Subject:        Re: [HP3000-L] Data past an EOF on a Reel Tape

On Fri, 14 Nov 1997 13:52:38 -0600, James Trudeau <[log in to unmask]>
wrote (hurriedly):

>Inna rush again,
>
>Wirt Atmar posted recently that his AICS outfit could sort deal with
>data recovery from tape.  I don't know if this fits within the perview
>of which he was speaking, and he didn't sound really enthusiastic.
>However, the offer was there + Wirt's pretty cool....if a little strange.

When I first read this, I took umbrage at James' what-I-thought-to-be
unfair characterization of Wirt as "a little strange" (and if you've
ever taken umbrage, you know how horrible that can be).  Then my
bibliophilic side took over and I looked up "strange" in my Webster's
New American Dictionary:

"STRANGE adj.  Not known or met before, unaccountable, surprising.
Syn. Novel, exotic, outlandish, odd, singular"

Well, having met Wirt, I guess that certainly describes him to a "T".
:-)

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