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Jerry2144

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11. lots of puns to be made

Reply to yardwork (Reply #9)

Mon Sep 15, 2025, 09:11 AM

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I was telling my son, a computer engineering student, about connecting to the mainframes at school using a 300 baud modem. He had a hard time understanding how anything would get done at that slow speed. old text editors and old non-graphical interfaces might as well have been writing in cuneiform as far as he can relate.

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