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Re: =UNISYS Icon's=
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Date: 
Mon, 4 Mar 2002 17:40:05 GMT
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Three (3) things:

Calum wrote:
Ah, yes.  The great ICON.
Firstly, I knew that a post concerning a classic computer system would
incur a reasonable amount of nostalgia. And thus instigate someone to
provide a detailed background sketch with an *abundance of info.
Of which I'm duly appreciative. ~Always wanted to understand
the method behind the madness.

Iain wrote:
we did the exact same thing at our school.
Secondly, I believe I can draw so many parallels to Iain cause I'm guessing
we were in the exact same grade. That, and the fact that its always totally
fun to reminisce about erstwhile public school dayz.

"callum wants to say hi"
Thirdly, go figure, children actually do read the content of our posts. Or at
least they just look at and study or names to make new friends…     ;)

               Learnin’ something new ‘very day,

                                                  --==Richard==--


*I was actually quietly hopping for this. Cause honestly, I really do learn so
incredibly much about computers from you guys!



Message has 2 Replies:
  Interesting/fun ICON story
 
(...) Well the computer lab at my high school (which I will not disclose) only had one lab, and that was all ICON II's (I believe). They were "hand-me-downs" from another highschool higher in the "resource chain". The computers were fun in a lot of (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: =UNISYS Icon's=
 
"Richard Noeckel" <Shroud_of_kung_fu@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:GsGMEt.4xp@lugnet.com... (...) guessing (...) totally (...) That's cool! I started Grade 9 in I think 1995. I think that's all I remember. I think I started Kindergarten in 1985 (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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  Re: =UNISYS Icon's=
 
(...) (this is largely OT but a good example of engineering gone bad) Ah, yes. The great ICON. For those non Canadian (or maybe even non Ontario) readers, the ICON was undoubtably one of the greatest examples of Canadian government institutional (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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