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I have a friend who did this sort of thing back in the '70s, maintaining a PDP-8 that ran a weather radar at the South Pole station during the long winter. Not
by hga 12y ago
I have a friend who did this sort of thing back in the '70s, maintaining a PDP-8 that ran a weather radar at the South Pole station during the long winter.
Not much in the way of creature comforts back then, he said they got very familiar with the few movies they had copies of, What's Up, Doc? was the only one he mentioned by name.
- sampo 12y ago"An annual tradition is a back to back viewing of The Thing from Another World, The Thing (1982), and The Thing (2011) after the last flight has left for the winter." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen%E2%80%93Scott_South_Pole_Station#Operation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amundsen%E2%80%93Scott_South_Po...
- sigzero 12y agoThat's awesome.