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Article #625198Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 23:23
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2018 23:23
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On 2018-08-04, ma...@mail.com <ma...@mail.com> wrote: > There was a story once about someone who time-travelled to Iceland > of the Middle ages. The locals, when he arrived, tried to find something > useful he could do, including smithing. They had come to the conclusion > that he was so useless at anything, they decided to castrate him to stop > the breed from multiplying, at which time, the hero discovered the way of > returning to the present. Stuff like that always reminds me of that Harvard Lampoon sendup "Bored of the Rings". Just when all seemed lost, the eagles descended, bearing a banner reading "DEUS EX MACHINA AIRLINES". -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ Fight low-contrast text in web pages! http://contrastrebellion.com
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