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To: 50sDad

Why, back in the day, we had coal fired computers! The "bugs" in the computer were literal bugs: silicon memory hadn't been invented yet, so we just plugged centipedes into those sockets and made them remember things. And we were GRATEFUL! GRATEFUL. I tell you!


100 posted on 06/28/2006 10:23:14 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Still Thinking
Why, back in the day, we had coal fired computers!

Coal? We would have loved to have had coal! We had to power our computers with thermal energy derived by rubbing our hands hands together!

104 posted on 06/28/2006 10:48:53 AM PDT by 50sDad (ST3d: Real Star Trek 3d Chess: http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~abartmes/tactical.htm)
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