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Re: Taking shortcuts
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Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:26:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, James Trobaugh wrote:

   Rocks! Wow you must have been one of the rich kids that I heard about when growing up. We would have killed to have rocks for doing our computations. Our parents would hit us with a switch and use our backsides for doing their fancy adding and such, if they made a mistake they had to wait for our skin to heal so they could start over...tax season really sucked

Was it a digital switch or an analog?



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(...) Rocks! Wow you must have been one of the rich kids that I heard about when growing up. We would have killed to have rocks for doing our computations. Our parents would hit us with a switch and use our backsides for doing their fancy adding and (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)

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