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Article #728Re: Saving data.
From: sgo... Steve Golson
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 04:06
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1990 04:06
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In article <11212.104...@mts.rpi.edu> Greg_d...@mts.rpi.edu (Commander Krugannal) writes:
> A few years back they showed the movie "Stand by Me" on campus.
> As you may recall, at the very end of the movie, the narrator
> gets up from his computer and turns it off without saving his
> file. Just about every person in the theater said, "He didn't
> save it!"
The way I remember it, he was using an IBM PC, and when he finished he turned
off the *monitor*, not the main unit. Humorous in any case.
Steve Golson sgo...@East.sun.com gol...@cup.portal.com
Trilobyte Systems -- 33 Sunset Road -- Carlisle MA 01741 -- 508/369-9669
(consultant for, but not employed by, Sun Microsystems)
"As the people here grow colder, I turn to my computer..." -- Kate Bush
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