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Subject:RE: User friendly is what you get used to From:Kat Kuvinka <katkuvinka -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>, "techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:38:21 -0500
LOL he is old school, he has probably worked with it!
I am too. Just sayin'.
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> On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:38:51 -0500, Kat Kuvinka <katkuvinka -at- hotmail -dot- com>
> wrote:
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> > This is the philosophy I got today from the boss. I'm not quite sure
> > what to say.
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> A long time ago in a computer room far, far away I got used to using an
> 029 keypunch for making "IBM" cards. I even became pretty good at hacking
> the program drum with a card to specify the fields for various kinds of
> data. If your boss really needs to, I'll bet that a web search could find
> him a working 029 and a box or two of blank cards. He could get used to it.
>
> THUNK. THUNK THUNK. THUNK. THUNK THUNK THUNK. THUNK. SH*T. Rip! Try again.
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