Re: Y2K False Alarm or Programmers LOOT the Public Purse (was: millennium Reading)

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From: p.k... Peter Kerr
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 00:00

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in...@montoya.net (D. P. Roberts) wrote:
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> What language did those wire grids with the iron beads use?

CJK. You did mean an abacus?

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Peter Kerr                        bodger
School of Music                   chandler
University of Auckland NZ         neo-Luddite

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From: p.k...@auckland.ac.nz (Peter Kerr)
Subject: Re: Y2K False Alarm or Programmers LOOT the Public Purse (was: millennium Reading)
Date: 1998/05/15
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