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Re: Wild computer language names

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From: ma... Mark Delany
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 12:20
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ca...@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu (Drifter...) writes:

>In article <15...@bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tn...@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>[A bit of ranting deleted]
>>Compared to that, all
>>you dewy eyed youngsters with your $3,000 personal workstations and your
>>California tans and your soccer leagues are pampered bunnies. :-)
> 
>  Hey, I've been using a Tandy Color Computer (in one form or another) since
>1980! I've just now upgraded... to a Laser 128.
>  Workstations!? We don't need no stinkin' WORKSTATIONS!
> 

And of course the author referred (somewhat derogatorily) to the 029
punch machine. 

Hell lad! We use to queue up for a chance on the 026!

:-)


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