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Date:      Sun, 11 Jul 2021 18:24:42 +0100
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com>
Cc:        Tim Daneliuk via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Goodbye
Message-ID:  <20210711182442.0872ba61be9c4451e502e85f@sohara.org>
In-Reply-To: <17a966154d8.281e.0b331fcf0b21179f1640bd439e3f4a1e@tundraware.com>
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2021 11:23:19 -0500
Tim Daneliuk via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On July 11, 2021 10:39:18 AM "
> >
> > <mutter>yooferterday dunno how easy they have it</mutter>
> >
> > --
> > Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
>  Entitled lot, aren't they... I remember when we didn't have 1s and 0s.  
> Had to make do with ells and ohs...

	There was a big box of zeroes under the paper tape punch of the
teletype I first learned to program with. Every time you punched a zero
shard out it left a one hole in the tape.

	Some people learned the hard way that the zeroes made terrible
confetti - paper cuts!

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>



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