Interesting historical note:

64 years ago, the Collosus Mark II was brought online in England, as a code
breaking computer.  Here's a link:

http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10307385&wwwflag=3&imagepos=3

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Cleveland, Kyle E. <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Don't know why I wrote that--just popped into my head.  Yep, I have an
> aunt just like that.  As a kid, I remember practically smothering in her
> cleavage when she got hold of me for a hug.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
>  Of Kendall D. Corbett
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 12:54 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Computers
>
> "....hugged the road like a fat aunt at a family reunion!"
>
> I love the mental image from this!  I had a great aunt who this could
> have
> been written about (who I loved dearly)!
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Cleveland, Kyle E. <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Amen to that, bro!
> >
> > Over the years, I've owned two brit bikes (Norton and Triumph) and a
> > TR-7.  They all leaked oil so badly that I had to fill the crankcases
> > each time I filled the gas tank.  Lovely road machines, though.  All
> > three hugged the road like a fat aunt at a family reunion!
> >
> > Kyle
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cerebral Palsy List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf
> > Of ken barber
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 4:05 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> >  Subject: Re: Computers
> >
> > British Computers
> > Know why the British don't make computers?
> >
> > They couldn't figure out how to make them leak oil!
> >
> > --- On Wed, 5/28/08, Peter Hunsberger <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I also started on cards, still had to use them for one
> > > second year
> > > project to write a compiler.  By the time the project was
> > > done you had
> > > an entire box of cards; you quickly learned to use sequence
> > > numbers on
> >
> >
> >
> >
> --
>
>
> Kendall
>
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
> depends on the unreasonable man.
>
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
>

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