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Re: So, what are we going to do?
<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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