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(...) Er, there's a somewhat less... sanitary... name for that particular color you know. and it even has something to do with POO. (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: TLC recalls 6776 (the person who complained)
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(...) Um, Holland? ARGH! *Danish* does not equal *Dutch*. Say it with me, please. Dutch is not from Denmark. Danish is not from Holland. Grrrr. Yahoo must be in trouble if they can't hire people who can check out *that* simple a fact. Sorry, after (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) POO .. 'Principles of Operation' probably with some subtitle about System/370. The book that was the definitive reference for the machine instruction set and registers. My memory implies that it had a butterscotch color cover. I had several (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: ..`My Monkeys Macabre Massacre`..
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(...) Very funny, oh how you twist a simple Wonderland allusion along with reference to the Matrix………………….. --==Richard ‘Trinity’ Noeckel==-- (...) P.S. There are no innocents. Shoot ‘em all and let God sort ‘em out! Yes, yet another tie-in. (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: What we can do... (my 2 cents)
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(...) That's what you say. Can you present evidence that the storm originated over England and not elsewhere? ;-) Pedro (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) C??? that's not a proper MF language. PL/S (where you get to write your own I/O)... What, did you work somewhere OTHER than IBM?? (...) Poo, I forget what POO was.... but my yellow card got pretty tattered from looking things up. I actually (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) ummm.. yes, I cut my teeth on 360/BAL then went promptly into 370/BAL and C. Do you remember what a POO was and what you used a green card for ? (eventually replaced by the yellow card IIRC). Ray (still has a box of 5081 cards somewhere) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I'll see your UNIX and raise you S/390... (Can you program in 370/BAL)? THAT'S a real computer. There are those that say if it didn't need chilled water at some point in its lifecycle it's just an ersatz computer. Not that I hold truck with (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: What we can do... (my 2 cents)
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(...) How so? are you saying god was on the side of the english??? GRIN (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | Re: Snotty Mecha
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LOL! Pretty funny stuff. ;-) (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.build.mecha, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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