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- To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
- From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 18:10:00 +0100
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- Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
yeah, yeah, and MY first computer was a steam-powered
Difference Engine with a coal-fired boiler.
fuck off.
> Yep - I still have a memory card w/the ferrite core "donuts" at the
> 1/16" size - I keep it as a reminder of the first machine I worked on
> (Burroughs B5700.) Nothing like waiting for the tubes in the tape
> drives to warm up before you feed the bootstrap cards through the card
> reader so it can continue the IPL and see the tape drives...
>
> - -
> James D. Wilson
>
> "non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem"
> William of Ockham (1285-1347/49)