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On 4/3/08 6:51 AM, "Walter Lewis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Sebastian Hammer wrote:
>> > A true hacker has no need for these crude tools. He waits for cosmic
>> > radiation to pummel the magnetic patterns on his drive into a pleasing
>> > and functional sequence of bits.
> Alas, having been doing this (along with my partners, the four
> Yorkshiremen) since the Stone Age ...
>
> We used to arrange pebbles in the middle of road into the relevant
> patterns (we *dreamed* of being able to afford the wire for an abacus).
> Passing carts would then help "crunch" the numbers.
>
> Walter
>     for whom graph paper, templates, pencils, 80 column punchcards and
> IBM Assembler were formative experiences
>



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