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At 6:03 PM -0500 3/8/07, Al Geist wrote:
>Chris Vickery wrote:
>
> I'd just like to mention how much I'm enjoying feeling young here. I
> work in on-demand software in the California Bay Area and, at 35, I'm
> practically a fossil! I reminisce about using AppleWorks on my Apple
> ][e, and staying up all night playing Wizardry, and my 25 year old
> co-workers nod and smile--and slowly, slowly edges away from the crazy
> old guy.
>
> So please, keep the punch card stories coming! I'm young, I'm young!
>
>
>WHAT's ZAT YO SAY....speak up boy. Darn infernal younguns...always
>mumbling. I remember programming using sixteen switches and a pushbutton by
>thunder.
>
>No where is my fiber......
>
>Al (a very immature 58) Geist
And punch tape used to store programs? Back before they had magnetic tape.
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