Re: History repeats itself -- MIDRANGE-L

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Check out the movie "The Apartment" with Jack Lemmon.  It was filmed in the
offices of Metropolitan Life (I believe), in New York,  and shows one of
those calculator farms.....as far as the eye can see, clerks cranking
handles like slot machines.....

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From: <boothm@earth.Goddard.edu>
> You don't remember the bullpen with rows of clerks cranking the handles of
> their Monroe Calculators, or the manilla ledger cards, the boxes of carbon
> paper, and onion skin paper so the secretary could type an original and 6
> copies?  You don't remember the stir caused by the invention of Whiteout?


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