[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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