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Thu, 12 Apr 2007

Today on IRC...

...it all went a bit 'Yorkshire'...

< bigbro> danield: Well, in my day, we didn't have BBS's, because there wasn't enough RAM to store all 26 letter of the alphabet so we only had up to the letter "M"...
< munky> bigbro: in your day uou only had the BBC
< dgold> <drinks Chateau de Chasselas> In my day, we used to have to power the computer with a piece of cloth soaked in lemon juice, and half a rotten spud.
< Gwilym> dgold: you had a computer? we had pieces of card that we had to put drops of sacrificed goat blood on
< dgold> Gwilym: well, when i say 'computer', it were only a piece of glass with a transistor stuck to the side with snot, but it were a computer to *us*.
< Gwilym> dgold: I had wake up before I went to sleep to polish the stone that we had

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