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To: stars & stripes forever

Back before PCs everyone used a terminal connected to a mainframe. I was a computer operator in 1984-86. We’d get support calls from upstairs and the typical answer was usually, “Turn it off and on again”.

It always worked.

-SB


292 posted on 12/17/2021 7:40:10 AM PST by Snowybear ( )
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To: Snowybear

A vt102 for sale.

Fond memories of creating asci art on those

https://www.ebay.com/itm/digital-VT102-/384398243554?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0


293 posted on 12/17/2021 7:46:18 AM PST by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: Snowybear

We’d get support calls from upstairs and the typical answer was usually, “Turn it off and on again”.

It always worked.

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Recurring gag on British sitcom “The IT Crowd.” Never stopped being funny.


300 posted on 12/17/2021 8:10:56 AM PST by Oratam ("For the love of money is the root of all evil.")
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