On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:59:38 -0400, "Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:

>
>"Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote in message 
>news:ltvnk41gu81uo8t686pln2afrc2blh8sh7@4ax.com...
>>>Not quite.  1898 was my grandfathers DOB.  Though there are days I sure 
>>>feel
>>>like it is.  I'm actually on the leading edge of the baby boomers, 1945. 
>>>I
>>>guess more Cretaceous than Jurassic.  I
>>
>> I'm near the other edge, 1950. It makes working out my age easy :)
>
>Haha .... we're just fossils .... ;-)
>

Speak for yourself ;)

>Enjoying this thread so I'm going to add .....
>
>Had an HP1000 that used paper tape if the boot sector on the hard drive 
>became corrupted. You should have seen that thing fly through the reader. We 
>treated it like gold and kept it in a fireproof safe when not being used.
>

I think I have. The Faci (?)t high speed tape reader I used would throw the tape
about 10 feet across the room.

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Regards
     Stephen

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