You sound like my father.  Uphill both ways and in the snow and
ten miles.  Wow dejavu all over again.
GAry
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From: Tim Ericson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 12:14 PM
Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Was Newbie needs help...


> Glenn wrote:
> > Chisel?  You had chisels?  We had to etch our stones with
> > sticks - and hope we finished before the stick wore out...
> > or we had to go off and find another!
>
> Stones?  You guys had STONES??
>
> HA!  We had to break sticks with our bare hands and lay
> them in a line on the ground, then run back and forth --
> UPHILL BOTH WAYS -- and *memorize* where the sticks
> were and where they weren't!!
>
> AND THEN, there was no computer!!  We had to do the
> binary calculations *in our heads*!!  And if you forgot
> any part of the sequence?  We had to run it again!!
>
> And if it SNOWED!!  Let me tell you about when it snowed...
>
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