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2008-06-14

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Posted by Fred 2008-06-14 10:07|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 I dig those 60's computers and the, uh, peripherals too.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2008-06-14 11:26|| 2008-06-14 11:26|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm afraid you'll need to sacrifice Iphigenia in order to get out of Baltimore harbor.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2008-06-14 13:28|| 2008-06-14 13:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Rab Steve? Who knew?

Posted by George Smiley 2008-06-14 13:36|| 2008-06-14 13:36|| Front Page Top

#4 He's part of the Army of.

Posted by Steve White 2008-06-14 14:52|| 2008-06-14 14:52|| Front Page Top

#5 For those of you geeks who are younger, that thing hanging off the man's neck is called a "tie" -- its purpose is lost in antiquity, but it is believed to have been a torture device. They are now used mostly by lawyers and CEOs.

The stack of cards on the table is also a torture device, though that particular stack does not appear menacing. When they reached carton-sized proportions they were most vexing. I was awarded an advanced degree in 1980 in part because I was able to endure the task of transmuting several cartons of cards into a "boundary layer solution." Don't ask me what that is -- I haven't needed one since 1980.

Posted by Darrell 2008-06-14 16:54|| 2008-06-14 16:54|| Front Page Top

#6 http://207.114.86.27/images/captchas/hdgdgrwyueoi.jpg

Object not found!

Posted by ed 2008-06-14 17:20|| 2008-06-14 17:20|| Front Page Top

#7 The Hollerith position, yes, I know it.
It mainly being folded and spoiled.

Posted by Captain Bligh 2008-06-14 18:20|| 2008-06-14 18:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Having a tie on in a computer room can be particularly fun - especially if your an operator dealing with old fashioned line printers (and card readers, etc...).

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-06-14 19:19|| 2008-06-14 19:19|| Front Page Top

#9 I understand lawyers are required to wear ties - keeps the foreskin from riding up

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-06-14 19:40|| 2008-06-14 19:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Happy Father's Day, Fred. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-06-14 20:25|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-06-14 20:25|| Front Page Top

#11 And grandfather's day, too, Fred. Welcome to the cat herd, Sherry, and thank you! I look forward to reading interesting things framed in medium green.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-14 20:49|| 2008-06-14 20:49|| Front Page Top

#12 And the man in the back is fiddling with a tape drive, children. Those were reels of tape the size of an LP record -- er -- the size of a dinner plate which held an astonishing 140MB of data. Wow! I still have one, somewhere.

From Wikipedia:

This is the main reason that photographic flash cameras were not allowed in data centers since they could (and did) trick the tape drives into falsely sensing [beginning-of-tape] and [end-of-tape]. It was rather spectacular to watch a whole bank of tape drives in fast rewind when a photo-flash went off.

I did not know that. I guess no one ever wanted to photograph our computer room.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2008-06-14 20:59|| 2008-06-14 20:59|| Front Page Top

#13 Hope you have an excellent weekend with the family, Fred.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-06-14 21:26|| 2008-06-14 21:26|| Front Page Top

#14 Forget what that Aubrey dude said; Baltimore is a party town.

Posted by McZoid 2008-06-14 22:13|| 2008-06-14 22:13|| Front Page Top

#15 I wanna know who does Fred's proofreading: "plus most of us nobodies, shows up to eat and wear funny hats.."
Why would you want to eat a hat, funny or otherwise? Or was that a subtle test for testing the 'translate' button.

On a serious note, Happy Fathers', Grandfathers' and any other assorted flavor of Father out there Day

Posted by USN,Ret. (from home) 2008-06-14 22:27|| 2008-06-14 22:27|| Front Page Top

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