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   From: rflowers@Tinbowlinggreen.com   
      
   "George"  wrote in message   
   news:dnhgac$2rh$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...   
   > (Everything snipped!)   
   >   
   > This thread is pure nostalgia!   
   > Remember "Scrumpi and chips" with its 256 bytes of RAM?   
   > Yes, 256 bytes!   
      
   That's nothing! When I was a kid, we had a coal fired Crawley-Leech   
   Automatrixatron with 16 bytes. 16! It was all mechanical (this was before   
   electric relays, mind you.) My brother and I had to get up at 4 in the   
   morning to start shoveling coal (after our morning beating), just so Mom   
   could play Solitaire.   
      
   But they don't make them like that anymore...   
      
   -- R Flowers   
      
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