13 Mar
2007
13 Mar
'07
10:27 a.m.
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:47:04 pm cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
John Wrote ..
Lightning strikes. ?Chance favors the prepared mind.
?Or at least the
obsessive mind with time on its hands. ?I have a stack of nine-tracks
I bought at the university surplus that must've stayed in limbo from
a department I once worked at - at least fifteen years before.
I looked at the stack on the shelf at the sale and said to myself,
why, those look just like the ones we used to use... ?and I reached
for them, and they were. ?A few bucks and they were mine. ?
Soon after, a list member helped me read them. ?They were a set
of RSTS backups from when I was working there.
Cool to me it was like catching time in a bottle. Getting to the files I
worked with perhaps will bring me back in a small way to those days. You
never know how much you miss something till its gone. I really did not
appreciate those early awkward days until much later in life.
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Francesca Smith
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