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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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