NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/alt/folklore/computer/16353

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From: [e-mail] (Paul Tomblin)
Subject: Re: Long gone geeking
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
References: <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:53:15 GMT
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[e-mail] (Jeffrey Osier) writes:

>I started geeking when we had to play PONG with rocks.  As a
>"programmer", I was responsible for standing on the sidelines and
>yelling out instructions:

Gee - I remember when we used to play it using these wooden things with
strings, and a ball, on a large clay/concrete surface with a net in the
middle.

[Most of the incredibly long signature mercifully deleted]
>Ah, for just one time I would take    415 903 1400, 415 903 0122 (fax)
>the Northwest Passage, to find the    [e-mail]
>hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea....

Much as I approve of Stan Rogers quotes in sigs, the [mercifully deleted]
Butt Ugly Ascii Font that proceeds it has _got_ to go.  So does the tab
damage.  (On my screen, it looks like "...to find the [e-mail] hand
of Franklin...")

--
Paul Tomblin, [e-mail] (Canadian first, Quebecer second)
"We sealed our federal pact without bloodshed and without exploitation of the
weak by the strong.  All it took was fairness, justice and some compromises
on both sides." - George-Etienne Cartier, Father of Confederation, 1867