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From: si... Simon Turner
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:40

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On 28 Feb, in article <ffopdf...@mid.individual.net>
     news...@eager.cx "Bob Eager" wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 21:35:34 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> 
>> Card readers were still being used into the 1980s, [...]
> 
> Indeed. We got rid of ours in 1983, to make room for a second CPU in thge 
> machine room (to dual with the first).

I initially read that as "to duel with the first"... 8-)

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From: si...@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner)
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