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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Tim Chain Porn (Re: High School Athletes (lusher))
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.073137.3165@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <727818919snx@drummond.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 07:31:37 GMT
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- In article <727818919snx@drummond.demon.co.uk>
- john@drummond.demon.co.uk writes:
-
- >When I were a lad, we used to program computers by tapping
- >on the side of the mercury delay lines with a pencil.
-
- >Punching object decks? We'd have *killed* for a handpunch.
- >They were for rich folks.
-
- >But if you told young people that today, they wouldn't
- >believe you...
-
- Oh you young whippersnappers are *so* spoiled. At least
- your widgies were electrical. We used Marchant and Monroe
- calculators, which were electrical only in the sense that
- you didn't have to turn the crank yourself (though we had a
- couple of those lying around).
-
- But at least the steel-nib pen had been invented by the time
- I got to college.
-
- --
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