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Subject:RE: Dark-Side of the Tech-com world! From:Barry Kieffer <bkieffer -at- ims -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Oct 2000 09:25:32 -0700 (PDT)
The following post is a prime example of why technical writing and drugs do not
mix.
> From: Brent -dot- Jones -at- level3 -dot- com
> Didn't you know that back in the 50s, before IBM and UNIVAC shoved their PC
> crap up our wazoos, convicted murderers sat around in dark basements, tables
> piled high with dismembered corpses, while architecting the technology that
> today we take for granted?
> Engineers teamed up for cross-country killing sprees, producing a vast array
> of body parts as well as products that fueled today's IT revolution.
> Brent Jones
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