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To: gibsonguy

I am such a dinosaur that my FORTRAN and COBOL classes in college were with punch cards. After my class finished the computer science department installed the dumb terminals.


72 posted on 08/01/2017 5:37:32 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: OldMissileer

My first was a ‘Quantus’ from a mail order magazine. I had to format the hard drive with their long distance telephone help.
I was like a chimpanzee with a circular saw.

Then a Mac Performa 200 with 80 megs and a squealing modem. Still have it in the attic.
As far as all this technical stuff, I was like ‘8-ball’ and his Sherman tank: “I don’t fix ‘em. I just drive ‘em.”


89 posted on 08/01/2017 9:13:44 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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