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-....- -....- .--- .- ..-. On 4/3/08 6:51 AM, "Walter Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sebastian Hammer wrote: >> > A true hacker has no need for these crude tools. He waits for cosmic >> > radiation to pummel the magnetic patterns on his drive into a pleasing >> > and functional sequence of bits. > Alas, having been doing this (along with my partners, the four > Yorkshiremen) since the Stone Age ... > > We used to arrange pebbles in the middle of road into the relevant > patterns (we *dreamed* of being able to afford the wire for an abacus). > Passing carts would then help "crunch" the numbers. > > Walter > for whom graph paper, templates, pencils, 80 column punchcards and > IBM Assembler were formative experiences > =============================================== Jeremy Frumkin Head, Emerging Technologies and Services 121 The Valley Library, Oregon State University Corvallis OR 97331-4501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 541.602.4905 541.737.3453 (Fax) =============================================== " Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. " - Emerson
