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Really good android news reader/poster?
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 02:00:09 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 2/11/2016 8:08 PM, wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:35:56 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:18:34 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: I was writing the user manuals for minicomputers being sold to the Peoples Republic of China to aid in weather forecasting for agricultural programs. Well, at least that was their ostensible purpose. === Whoa, there's another Harry Tale we haven't hear before. Did the Chicoms use the computers to develop nuclear weapons? That would be a nice embellishment. I am having a little trouble with the time line. 1965 in Bethesda? When was he at that Kansas college and the paper? How old is this guy? Greg, *you* are the one who established 1965 as the date, not Harry. It's doubtful anything like this was going on in 1965. Oh contraire Harry said "While you two boys were shoveling coal in the bowels of some obsolete ship somewhere, I was writing the user manuals for minicomputers being sold to the Peoples Republic of China" I was on the ship in 1965. In 1980 I was a region support rep for IBM. When he says this ****, I actually read what he says and respond directly to it ... even when it is a brain fart. |
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Really good android news reader/poster?
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 02:25:44 -0500, wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2016 02:00:09 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/11/2016 8:08 PM, wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:35:56 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:18:34 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote: I was writing the user manuals for minicomputers being sold to the Peoples Republic of China to aid in weather forecasting for agricultural programs. Well, at least that was their ostensible purpose. === Whoa, there's another Harry Tale we haven't hear before. Did the Chicoms use the computers to develop nuclear weapons? That would be a nice embellishment. I am having a little trouble with the time line. 1965 in Bethesda? When was he at that Kansas college and the paper? How old is this guy? Greg, *you* are the one who established 1965 as the date, not Harry. It's doubtful anything like this was going on in 1965. Oh contraire Harry said "While you two boys were shoveling coal in the bowels of some obsolete ship somewhere, I was writing the user manuals for minicomputers being sold to the Peoples Republic of China" I was on the ship in 1965. In 1980 I was a region support rep for IBM. When he says this ****, I actually read what he says and respond directly to it ... even when it is a brain fart. Not to take sides here, but that sounds pretty damn reasonable to me. -- Ban liars, tax cheats, idiots, and narcissists...not guns! |
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