OT? Yahoo Free Listing Day

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman_at_kih.net>
Date: Wed Jan 23 17:47:25 2002

Well t hen you're the macho dweeb programmer type :-)

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From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Pat Finnegan
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 1:11 PM
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: OT? Yahoo Free Listing Day




On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Russ Blakeman wrote:

> It is pretty weird to have computer nerds talking about tractors, like
Eddie
> Arnold on Green Acres I'd say. I believe that's the reason most of us can
> keep the old computer iron going as we're not the underweight skinny
dweebs
> that know programming but when machine is older they throw it out. It
takes
> someone diverse in mechanics, electronics, shop trades, etc to kep this
old
> stuff going, just like you need to keep an old machine going (truck, car,
> tractor, etc).

HEY! I am one of those underweight skinny dweeb programmers! Of course I
have some 'classic computer sensibilities' (or to the rest of the world,
'problems' or 'insanity' :)

-- Pat
Received on Wed Jan 23 2002 - 17:47:25 GMT