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To: ShadowAce

Really??????

3 posted on 10/18/2019 7:27:42 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: rdl6989

The guys on 24 hour alert listen to 8 track cartridges on their time off and use rotary dial phones.

Then the new 2019 computer systems arrive.

“Wonder why all 15 of the tech guys who came in to install them are Chinese. Every one of them.”

“Darned if I know. Ask the Pentagon. They did say the new equipment was all made in China. Like everything in the stores these days, I guess. And have you seen my Barry Manilow cassettes?”


12 posted on 10/18/2019 7:34:54 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud & harvesting,non-citizen voting & leaftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: rdl6989

When I was an IT contractor for the State back in the late 90’s, they were still using 8 inch floppy’s for some serious data processing. Go figure.


24 posted on 10/18/2019 7:57:49 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: rdl6989

I remember those from my 1987 IBM PS2/50...


27 posted on 10/18/2019 8:01:09 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: rdl6989; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

omg, I’ll donate my old winXPs if they need them..


48 posted on 10/18/2019 11:15:43 AM PDT by bitt
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To: rdl6989

Yup. Those 8” floppies are for real. Had production equipment that used them late last century.


65 posted on 10/18/2019 8:28:47 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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