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Lotus 1-2-3!!
DIBS, you’re dating us. Sam: remember that? Remember 5 1/2 inch floppy disks? I remember that you used to have to insert 4 of those things to upload a simple program.
mshook- I sometimes take care of my neighbor’s mixed but mostly pit bull dog and a sweeter dog I haven’t met. I joke with her that its a good thing dogs don’t have opposable thumbs or he would be offering all the electronics and jewelry to any robbers. He’s a handful though- she is gettig him training- he’s overly enthusiastic on leash and has been known to drag us around like limp sock puppets 🙂
I’ve seen other people walking their pit bulls (or even staffordshires) and people in the street will just go off on them for having a pit bull. That happened to a neighbor of mine in Bklyn Hgts.
Yes, this is bringing back memories of Amdahl, Tandem DEC and remember the word processing companies: Wang, CPT, etc I first got into the business in 1980 and these were all the high fliers back then. And then the software companies: Lotus!!!
Snark, you slay me! I bow in your general direction!
DIBS;
Not only do I remember Cray, they are a customer. In fact, Cray is one of my favorite customers because of their location: Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, the home of Leinenkugel beer. Wisconsin has some “interesting” food, shall we say, like fried pickles and fried cheese curds. Yuck! Leinenkugel’s is great beer however. A hotel room in Chippewa Falls cost $59/night, complete with breakfast.
One correction, however: Cray dominates the “big iron” supercomputing machines, the ones that cost a mini-GDP. This is now a small slice of the market. The big money is now in computer clusters, as I described above, and it is dominated by IBM, HP and Sun.
Bxgrl;
The machine you are thinking about was called “Ivan” and it was built by IBM. It is also one of those “big iron” machines, not the new “clustered computers”.
Sam;
Sorry, my company doesn’t develop “Curmudgeon Personal Assistant Devices”.
Hey, rob… I know you probably don’t want to hear from me again! But as a fellow pit owner, I felt like I had to pipe up about your story. I believe is our resonsibility as owners of a much-maligned breed to do more than just “hope nothing bad happens”. We need to work hard to make sure we don’t allow anything to occur which might add to the stories and distortions about pit bulls. Is your dog fixed? Have you have ever worked with a trainer? Maybe this guy just smelled off or whatever… but you should know there are lots of great pit-friendly trainers out there who will give discounts if you do feel like some bad behavior patterns are growing. My pit recently got attacked by some guard dogs and started to get defensive and weird around dogs so we are working on that with a really great trainer. Of course any dog will act up and misbehave, but because we are trying to change people’s minds about pit bulls and show them what loyal, loving animals they are, I feel like we owe it to the dogs to go the extra mile.
Mr. B, it’s a mistake for you to censor a post.
-does that mean he actually has to read every post? Poor guy! That is like hardship duty.
Mr. B, it’s a mistake for you to censor a post.
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It WAS cleaned up!
SnarkSlope, Exactly! I like the pod-cabs from Star Wars.