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Article #625371Re: Microsoft's PDP-10s
From: Quadibloc
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:06
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:06
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On Monday, July 30, 2018 at 8:31:26 PM UTC-6, J. Clarke wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2018 15:16:44 -0700 (PDT), Quadibloc > <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > >the computer in the Hepburn-Tracy movie "Desk Set" was called EMERAC... no, > >that's not quite what I was looking for... > >Ah, yes, I got it confused with the computer EPICAC from the works of Kurt > >Vonnegut. Ipecac being a natural laxative. > Not quite. The word you are looking for is "emetic". Well, while EPICAC is closer to Ipecac, when I think of EMERAC, instead of "emetic", I had always thought of _hemmorhoids_. Particularly given the older form of "emerods". John Savard
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