On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:52 AM Lawrence Stewart <stewart@serissa.com> wrote:


> On 2020, Jun 25, at 12:15 AM, Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> wrote:
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> https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/old_days_2.png
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> -r
>

The trick to these is to include one nugget of truth.  If anyone asks, I’m saying the sweater part is absolutely true.

After all, BITNET actually did work by connecting a virtual card punch to a remote virtual card reader.

I have thousands of virtual sweaters in a drawer upstairs. They were what inspired virtual machines and the cloud after all... 

Warner