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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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