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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!festival!ercm20
- From: ercm20@festival.ed.ac.uk (Sam Wilson)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: IBM and 3
- Message-ID: <28527@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 11:31:49 GMT
- References: <By3Ep5.Kv2@world.std.com>
- Sender: nntpusr@castle.ed.ac.uk
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- dpbsmith@world.std.com (Daniel P. B. Smith) writes:
- > Hmmm... dunno... reminiscent of Boeing and the number "7" (all their
- > aircraft numbers have ENDED in "7" since, oh, I dunno, I think there
- > was a 247 that was contemporary with the DC-3).
-
- Yeah, like the 720...
-
- (No, you may not have heard of it, it looked just like a 707. I've
- never knowingly seen one, only encountered it in books, but I wouldn't
- have recognised it if I had.)
-
- Sam
-