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echo: os2
to: Leonard Erickson
from: Bob Wright
date: 1999-10-28 18:52:07
subject: Computer History

Greetings, Leonard...

Leonard Erickson hastily said to Dirk Stuijfzand:

 DS>> (Now we get the OS/2 users who punched cards in the past to enter data
 DS>> into computers)

 LE> Not only have I punched cards, I've toggled bootstrap code into a
 LE> mainframe.

How about machine code into an IBM 2000 ... 2K of real core memory..

 LE> And as far as card punching goes, how many of you know what a "drum
 LE> card" for a keypunch does?

And *anyone* who had to punch their own programs should certainly know that..
(particularly after having the first unsequenced source deck dropped..)

        -- Bob

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