Texts copied by Andy Tannenbaum from the collection at:
http://www.poppyfields.oaktree.co.uk/filks/
Verified and corrected by Richard Holmes.
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Title - 602 is Coming to Core
By - Albert Corda, Richard Holmes and David Kinder
Original - Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Original by - J. Fred Coots and Henry Gillespie
Oh, you'd better not PEEK.
You'd better not SPY.
You'd better not POKE.
I'm telling you why.
602 is coming to core!
The DEVLNM bombs.
You can't do a CALL.
GETTABs just
Don't work at all.
602 is coming to core!
It wakes you when you're sleeping.
It swaps you when you're small.
It puts you into 'MQ wait',
And you can't get out at all. So...
You'd better not PEEK.
You'd better not SPY.
You'd better not POKE.
I'm telling you why.
602 is coming to core!
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Title - 99 Bugs in the Monitor Now
By - Albert Corda, Richard Holmes and David Kinder
Original - 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
Original by - Traditional
99 bugs in the monitor now.
99 bugs in the core.
Run DDT.
Find two or three.
96 bugs in the monitor now.
96 bugs in the monitor now....
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Title - Away in QMANGR
By - Albert Corda, Richard Holmes and David Kinder
Original - Away in a Manger
Original by - William J. Kirkpatrick, John Thomas McFarland
Away in QMANGR,
No room for a file,
My program and output
Are stuck for a while.
The stop button's down
And the opr's away.
The little line printer's
Asleep for the day.
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Title - Bye, Bye, System
By - Albert Corda, Richard Holmes and David Kinder
Original - Bye, Bye, Blackbird
Original by - Fletcher Henderson, Mort Dixon
Pack up all your I and O.
Here we go.
Core is low.
Bye, bye, system.
Watch the swapper swap you out.
Moan and cry,
Scream and shout.
Bye, bye, system.
No interpreter can understand me.
SOS has given up and banned me.
RIB block errors did me in.
JD swapped,
Just can't win.
System, bye, bye.
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Title - The First TOPS-10
By - Albert Corda, Richard Holmes and David Kinder
Original - The First Noel
Original by - Traditional
The first TOPS-10
From Maynard, they say,
Lasted twenty-three seconds
And then went away.
It went away so fast
That it zeroed its core.
And the series one monitor
Was no more.
TOPS-10, TOPS-10,
TOPS-10, TOPS-10,
Born is the rival of IBM.
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Title - God Rest ye CS Students
By - Albert Corda, Richard Holmes and David Kinder
Original - God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen
Original by - Traditional
God rest ye CS students now
Let nothing you dismay
The DEC is down and won't be up
Until the first of May
The program that was due this morn
Won't be postponed, they say
Chorus:
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy
Comfort and joy
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy
The bearings on the drum are gone
The disk is wobbling too
We've found a bug in LISP, and Algol
Can't tell false from true
And now we find that D is really
Oh point four oh two
Chorus
And all you kids in chemistry
Who use NICL
You'd find out, if the DEC were up
It wouldn't work too well
The Chemistry Department says
That WACCC can go to, well...
Chorus
We've just received a call from DEC
They'll send without delay
A monitor called 603
It takes three hundred K
Greg Walsh committed suicide
We'll bury him today
Chorus
And now this cheery news from WACCC
The Spectra's also dead
You'll have to run your programs on
The Wang upstairs instead
The turnaround time's nineteen weeks
And cards cannot be read
Chorus
And now we'd like to say to you
Before we go away
We hope the news we've brought to you
Won't ruin your whole day
You've got another program due
Tomorrow by the way
Chorus
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Title - Magtapes Roasting
By - Albert Corda, Richard Holmes and David Kinder
Original - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on on Open Fire)
Original by - Mel Torme, R.Wells
Magtapes roasting on an open fire.
DECtapes lying on the floor.
All nasty files being thrown on a pyre.
And ops.sav's around no more.
Everybody knew a tape search would be drawing near,
Tried to get their tapes from W.A.C.C.C.
But big EGP, with a smile ear to ear,
Refused to give the DECtapes back.
They knew that doom was on its way.
They're losing "TEST" and other goodies on this day.
And every UFD that isn't nice
Will be deleted once...or maybe even twice.
So we're offering this simple song
To all kids who like to hack.
Only do what's right...don't get caught doing wrong.
Merry Christmas from W.A.C.C.C.
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Title - Over HLL, Over CAILE
By - Albert Corda, Richard Holmes and David Kinder
Original - The Caisson Song
Original by - Brig. Gen. E.L. Gruber
Over HLL, over CAILE,
We will hit the MACRO trail
As our program goes crunching along!
Read stuff in.
Take the sum.
Do your output to the drum
As our program goes crunching along!
For it's PUSH, MOVE, POP,
Execute a FORTRAN STOP,
Shout out your opcodes loud and strong:
CAIN!! JRST!!
We will bomb as we
Overwrite our UFD
And our program goes crunching along!!
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Title - Stopcode Bells
By - Albert Corda, Richard Holmes and David Kinder
Original - Jingle Bells
Original by - John Pierpont
Chorus:
Stopcode bells, stopcode bells,
Stopcode all the way.
Oh, what fun it is to crash
For the fourteenth time today.
(Repeat)
Poking through the core
With a bug in DDT,
Change your PPN
To seven comma three.
Halt somebody's job.
Make him scream and shout.
Oh, what fun it is to log
The operator out.
(Chorus)
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Title - The Twelve Days of Uptime
By - Albert Corda, Richard Holmes and David Kinder
Original - The Twelve Days of Christmas
Original by - Traditional
On the twelfth day of uptime
The system gave to me:
12 stopcodes ringing,
11 LISPers losing,
10 daemons running,
9 modems dying,
8 RIB blocks missing,
7 DECtapes stretching,
6 jobs a-hacking,
5 K of core
4 detached jobs
3 STRTRK's,
2 CPU's
And a job stuck in run queue three.
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Title - The Wonderful Hacker
By - Albert Corda, Richard Holmes and David Kinder
Original - The Marvelous Toy
Original by - Tom Paxton
When I was a wee undergrad,
Minasian gave to me
A PPN and a password, too:
8-M-J-4-X-3.
I first bombed disk,
And then bombed core,
And slaved the CTY.
And then I stole "ACCT.SYS"
And watched the system die.
Oh, it went
-- crunch --
When it moved, and
-- BOOTS --
When it stopped, and
-- --
When it stood still.
They never knew just who it was
And I guess they never will.
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Title - What Segment is This?
By - Albert Corda, Richard Holmes and David Kinder
Original - Greensleeves
Original by - Traditional
What segment's this
That, laid to rest
On FHA0:, is sleeping?
What system file
Lay here a while
While hackers around it were fweeping?
This, this is "ACCT.RUN,"
Accounting file for everyone.
Dump, dump it and type it out,
The file, the highseg of LOGIN.
Why lies it here
On public disk
And why is it now unprotected?
A bug in INCANT
Made it thus.
The problem has not been corrected.
Mount, mount all your DECtapes now
And copy the file somehow, somehow.
Dump, dump it and type it out,
The file, the highseg of LOGIN.
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