Kevin wrote:

> The memories are good ones but I realize the kids working
> the store were not born when those computers were first 
> considered obsolete.

I spent many a happy evening with Ga. Tech's Univac 1108 scientific mainframe 
35 years ago, and their older but clever stack machine known as the Burroughs 
B5500.  

Later, as a EE grad student at U of Arkansas after leaving the Navy, I learned 
about IBM's famous System 360/370.  How many people today remember the "Houston 
Automatic Spooler Program (HASP)" or would understand a bumpersticker that read 
"Honk if you love JCL!"

Today, we are most of us computer appliance operators, who learn application 
programs, but know little about the hardware and firmware beneath the 
application.

73,
Mike / KK5F
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