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Re: EEP!



It was open stage night in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, when
Hank Tiffany stepped up to the microphone and muttered: 

> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Den wrote:
> 
>> "Eliyahu Rooff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 190813.news.uni-berlin.de:
>> 
>> > Don't know about the rest, but I'm old enough to have worked
>> > with punch cards, paper tape, and systems using vacuum tubes
>> > in the processor.
>> 
>> Next someone will say their computer was an abacus. And that he
>> was good at it!
> 
> When 1st in college (1980-83) I was using the Versalog slide
> rule I bought for $5 when they were trying to unload them
> because calculators wre down under $50 (1974). Does that count? 
> 
> Hank, who still has it, btw

You win.

-- 
Derek

It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.




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