10 Dec
2000
10 Dec
'00
7:38 a.m.
At 07:07 AM 12/10/00 -0600, Russ Blakeman wrote:
You know I've seen that since it came out and it
JUST dawned on me that the
OCT is octal and that DEC is decimal. NOW it makes perfecr sense. Guess I've
been out of the programming world too long.
And this joke certainly qualifies for the 10-year-rule,
I'm surprised there were some on this list that hadn't
heard it before!
Then again, I recall the story of talking to a guy at
a convention, and he became so excited when I mentioned
a C-64 game I'd worked on... he said "Wow, I used to
play that on my dad's old Commodore when I was little!".
- John