[12860] in Cypherpunks
Re: So, what are we going to do?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Sewell)
Mon May 2 12:11:39 1994
To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 12:04:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jim Sewell" <jims@Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9405021513.AA25885@snark.imsi.com> from "Perry E. Metzger" at May 2, 94 11:13:38 am
<In mail Perry E. Metzger said:>
>
> "Jim Sewell" says:
> > A friend of mine that repaired computers said he ran across an
> > old disk drive that was used in WWII.
>
> There were no disk drives in WWII. There were barely computers. Hell,
> there was barely magnetic audio storage -- on steel wire!
He said "the war", perhaps it was Korean? To paraphrase McCoy,
"Dammit Jim, I'm a programmer, not a historian!"
Jim
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