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|    The Daring Dufas to iDRMRSR the Reclined Mastar    |
|    Re: Alas, poor floppy, we knew you well    |
|    26 Apr 10 20:29:16    |
      XPost: alt.slack, alt.2600       From: the-daring-dufas@peckerhead.net              iDRMRSR the Reclined Mastar wrote:       >> I wish they would bring back PUNCHED CARDS.       >       > Why you lazy ...       >       > You can surely do it yourself.       > <       >       > I wondar if anybody makes a card-readar for a PC these days? Prolly could       > figgar out how to dangal one off a serial port. Then get me a line printar.       >       > I know someone out there has IBM MVS operating systam tapes and a simulator       > on a web site. I could convert my PC into a mainframe that's fastar than       > the one that earned me the pensian I'm living off of.       >       > I bettar stop writing now or I'm gonna miss the CUTOFF DATE for the Monthly       > Update run!       >       > [*]       > -----       >       >              I do remember someone selling an reel to reel tape drive interface       for PC computers but that was back when Computer Shopper magazine       was twice as big as the largest phone book. FLNF©              TDD              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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