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Date:      Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:38:44 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:10:28 +0100
Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote:


> 50s) had the experience of programming microcode on a machine by
> inserting brass slugs for 0s and ferrite slugs for 1s on a pin board.

I wonder why it was brass/ferrite rather than brass/empty or
ferrite/empty.



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