Blast from the Past

> On Aug 15, 2017, at 5:11 AM, Mike Matthews <omnis@lineal.co.uk> wrote:
>
> A grand idea, then we can all sit around the fire listening to the good
old days of punch cards, 4K RAM and Cobol, and laugh heartily at the so
called Millennium bug saga. 🙂
>
> But the club sounds fantastic, so start it while you have their attention.
>
> Mike
>
>
> Mike Matthews, Managing Director, Lineal Software Solutions Ltd

Who would have thought, 30 years ago, we’d all be sitting here
communicating using wireless touch devices?

Punch cards and RAM? You were lucky. We had to use broken abacuses in a
damp and moldy basement, then transcribe the results onto papyrus.

Millennium bugs? HAH – we had to swat away bubonic plague fleas with the
abacuses. How did you think they got broken?

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