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To: HippyLoggerBiker
Once I had the rubber band break on my FORTRAN punchcard stack

Let me guess, you hadn't drawn a diagonal line on the top of your stack with a magic marker?

I assume you know who this is.

WWG1WGA

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)

LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

1,408 posted on 04/17/2020 2:04:39 PM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: LonePalm

I had to ink dot matrix printer ribbons and change glass disc platters to do the reel to reel back ups in my first tech job. tested modems with a butt phone. that was 1990. if I knew then what I knew now, I would have sold my MCI Stock before worldcom screwed me.


1,413 posted on 04/17/2020 2:11:25 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #gin&tonic #godwins)
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To: LonePalm

Punch Card Inventor Herman Hollerith

Is it proper to say “Mes ami”?


1,420 posted on 04/17/2020 2:17:33 PM PDT by HippyLoggerBiker (Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.)
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