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May 1999, Week 3

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Joe Geiser <[log in to unmask]>
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Joe Geiser <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 18 May 1999 14:59:53 -0400
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Wirt remembers:

> Unfortunately, I'm getting old. My fondest memories aren't of
> card punches
> and clunky mainframes, but of 20 years before that, when "delay lines
> actually did fill, and vacuum tubes warmed up, and heroes
> (greater than the
> men we know), who never from their standards did depart."

<snip>

What Wirt dosen't want people to know, is that he remembers Mauchley and
Eckert, when they were working in the ENIAC - here at the University of
Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering - here in BSEPA!

(Just kidding, Wirt - although if you said you knew them, I would believe
you... no one else, but you, yes :)

Cheers,
Joe

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