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skissanelast Thursday at 9:04 AM2 repliesview on HN

The “MAKE LOVE”/“NOT WAR” easter egg was in TECO for DEC PDP-6/10 machines. But DEC TECO was also ported to Multics, so maybe that was the Honeywell machine you used it on.

But, for a whole bunch of reasons, I’m left with the suspicion you may be misremembering something from the early 1970s as happening in the 1960s. While it isn’t totally impossible you had this experience in 1968 or 1969, a 1970s date would be much more historically probable


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flyinghamsterlast Thursday at 2:30 PM

The easter egg carried over to the PDP-11 as well. I remember it being present in RSTS/E 7.0's TECO back in my high school days, and I just fired up SIMH and found it's definitely there.

On the other hand, I never really tried to do anything with TECO other than run VTEDIT.

wpollocklast Thursday at 7:33 PM

You're probably right. It definitely was teco and likely 1970ish.