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[Bob Nielsen]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 01:04:09PM +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:

> Aye, well....
> 
> When *I* were lad, used to punch out Fortran IV, on mechanical punch
> keyboard.... carry deck 'o cards to front counter of Computer Centre,
> *queue* for privilege of using IBM mainframe, and come back *a day
> later* to find printout of bugs!

Ah, memories!  Once (about 35 years ago) I dropped a whole deck on my
way to the building with the remote card reader (our mainframe was in
another facility about 50 miles away, with a modem connection). 
Fortunately the cards were numbered and we had a sorter where I worked.



> 
> XP? OS/2? Win3.1 ? HA! *YOU* were *lucky* !!
> 
> </ Monty_Python>
> 
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