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Comment Computer Lab (Score 1) 192

We had a Datapoint mainframe that was donated by the local university. I learned Cobol and Pascal on it. The hard drive was huge the size of a washing machine. I don't remember the brand of the printer, but it was a giant dot matrix printer. We should have been wearing hearing protection when it was printing. This was in the late 80's, so the equipment was quite aged.

Comment Re: Frivolous lawsuit (Score 1) 496

While they are at it, sue the car manufacturer for creating a car that exceeds the speed limit, sue the state for issuing a drivers license to an irresponsible person, sue the phone manufacturer for allowing a distraction, sue every movie studio for making a movie with a car chase or race, sue nascar, sue .........

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