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In the line of Computer Nostalgia the following verse comes to mind.

It was originally published back in the dark ages in the "Journals of the CACM" as a part of "The Programmers ABC'c" (I have kept the entire list of verses)




N is the Noon. Much more than dreary night
The noontime hour sees rise the rotting dead
Who from their wooden cells go muttering forth

Then will you her them speak if ancient wrongs
Of projects cancelled, systems vague and
Strange
Of intricate enhancements ill designed
And long lost deadlines. Then also do they chart
Forgotten jobstreams flowing in the night
To since discarded listings. Men they curse

Who plucked procrustean schedules from the air
And then departed called to high estate
In distant companies long since forgot

And rusted hardware, powered once again
By memory and misted rosy dream
Delay lines fill and vacuum tubes warm up

And heroes (greater than the men we know)
Who never from their standards did depart
Stand forth among them calling them to war

Then should the living shudder and know fear
And tremble at the muttering of the dead

But hoary time in envy lest these shades
Usurp the little space of those who breathe
Now moves the clock unto the hour of one

And sends them back to work till coffee-break.


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