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>>>LUXURY!!!
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>>>When I were a lad, computers were a cardboard box with pebbles in it. Each pebble had a character drawn on it wi' felt-tip pen and you had to move them around to make commands by holding them between the ends of two knitting needles. All the output came on a roll of that hard, shiny toilet paper that no-one likes, scrawled on wi' blunt charcoal. Alternatively you could eviscerate a chicken and read the augury.
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>>>We didn't have a mouse - but a live hamster inside. You programmed in binary code, using the hamster's droppings.
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>>>And you tell that to the kids of today ... and they won't believe you!
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>>Oh, Sure! You had a cardboard box!!
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>Alright! It were papier-mache, using lark's vomit as the cement.
You guys are all youngsters! When I grew up we had a guy named Fred Flintstone, who worked in a granite quarry. He provided the material for the first computers used my man. Yes sir, stone tabloids are the best way to go! Just do not drop one though! :)
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