RE: System 34

You nailed it on the head James!  Glory day posts come up once every other 
quarter.

Eric Kempter

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> From: email@james-w-kilgore.com [SMTP:email@james-w-kilgore.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2000 11:09 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: System 34
> 
> Don,
> 
> Sorry to be this way, I'm having a bad hair day or hormonal storm, or a
> client who just replaced their S/36 less than 30 days ago and wonders
> why they have to work this weekend to meet payroll on Monday ... don't
> know .... go figure! ;-}
> 
> But come on folk's, every year there is an incredible amount of download
> time wasted on the geezer contest.
> 
> Hey Dorothy, you're not in Kansas anymore!  The fact that you or I
> programmed in APL on a 4k 3741 or Absolute on an 1130 and became a hero
> at that time is yesterdays news.
> 
> Yesterday is a highly filtered/foggy memory.  Tomorrow may be. Today is.
> 
> James W. Kilgore
> 
> P.S. About 10 years ago I went to a one man show at a French
> Cabaret/resetaurant.  I don't know the correct spelling of his name but
> I recall (filtered/foggy) as Koggel.
> 
> Early in is monolog he informed us that he had terminal cancer.  Once he
> came to grips with this he started to wear a "Zen" watch. (In practice
> it's not wearing any watch at all).  A "Zen" watch is one that sez
> "now", unless it's broken and it sez "then".
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> Don wrote:
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> > James,
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> > you're such a kill joy dude....:)
> > 
> > Don in DC
> > 
> > On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, James W Kilgore wrote:
> > 
> > > With all due respect, ladies and gentlemen, The fact that you wired a
> > > 409 board or programmed a 4k 3741 is nice, but meaningless.
> > >
> > > The only good day was yesterday?
> > >
> > > It's year 2000.  What you did yesterday doesn't matter any more than
> > > what I've done, the question is "what are you -going- to do?".
> > >
> > > The rat race lives! <g>
> > >
> > > Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. IMHO, keep up or eat dust.
> > >
> > > James W. Kilgore
> > > Fortran IV, S/360 and every IBM product/language since, but who the heck
> > > cares.
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