I am *SO* going to turn off automatic updates.

[David Smith]

It was 24 Aug 2006, when Richard Downing commented:

> Damned new fangled programs, namby-pamby transistors!  Program in
> machine code, enter it on the handswitches, read the results from the
> register lamps.  You guys don't know what computers are.
> 
> TheOldFellow
> [One of those sad b*ggers who started computing with Vacuum Tubes, and who
> still thinks FORTRAN was a mistake.]

You had tubes?  We used tubes to store the extra pebbles.

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