[LUNA] Reply-To discussion
Michael W. Hall
hallmw at att.net
Fri Apr 26 20:54:10 CDT 2013
Sad to say I did not need to look it up. That is an awesome piece of
ancient machinery. I will be in Athens this summer and I may have to go
look at it in the museum.
On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 13:47 -0500, Allen Krell wrote:
> At least you had '0', you should have tried using the Antikythera
> mechanism (look it up on Wikipedia, or on a recent Nova episode).
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Kris Kirby <kris at catonic.us> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Christopher R Key wrote:
> > That's the problem with this generation. Lazy. Why in my
> day, we had
> > to type out the response in binary, submitted on punch
> cards, and then
> > pray we had time left on the timeshare. All this while
> facing an
> > uphill walk in 3 feet of snow just get to the server room!
>
> At least you had binary! We were so poor we just had "0".
> Couldn't
> afford a one, let alone several of them. Why, the day we got a
> one, our
> heads were full of dreams of what might be in the future!
> Automobiles!
> Aeroplanes! Rockets!
>
> Then they put the new-fangled "compudasterlator" onto the
> automobile and
> we never were the same again. That and those new-fangled
> auto-matic
> transmissions. It isn't right; taking all of that control from
> the
> driver of the automobile. Why, I have a half a mind to write
> Henry Ford
> myself!
>
> Smithers!! I seem to have misplaced my fountain pen. Please
> have several
> serfs from Sector Seven look for it. If one of them finds it,
> congratulate him. THEN HAVE HIM FIRED! They'll rue the day
> they heard my
> name, Montgomery B.. Ooh, a choc-o-lat-e.
>
> --
> Kris Kirby, KE4AHR
> Disinformation Analyst
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