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- From: stephena@netcom.com (Stephen Arrants)
- Subject: Re: Tim Chain Porn (Re: High School Athletes (lusher))
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.164734.1064@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <727818919snx@drummond.demon.co.uk> <1993Jan24.073137.3165@macc.wisc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:47:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.073137.3165@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:
- >In article <727818919snx@drummond.demon.co.uk>
- >john@drummond.demon.co.uk writes:
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- >>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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- Yes, but you DID spend a lot of time making your own ink and paper.
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