In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 02/01/2006
at 10:33 AM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>And me, being really nasty, would likely go into reminisces and
>detail how, in the old days, we had to route the tape out of the
>reel, through the capstans, down and up the vacuum chambers,
You had vacuum columns? We had to[1] use gravity bins[2] ;-)
[1] Well, I actually saw vacuum columns before I saw gravity bins.
[2] If you don't know what gravity bins are, you don't want to know.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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