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Re: The good old days (was Re: textbook prices)



At 01:30 PM 2/24/98 EST, Paul Camp wrote:
I'm waiting for someone to wax nostalgic over fingers and toes . . .


Reminds me of an old Dilbert (?), where one old-timer was complaining about
having to program in binary using punch-cards, and the come-back from the
other oldster was something to the effect that "So what? In my day we had
to make do with l (ell) and o instead of 1 (one) and 0."

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