17 Nov
2004
17 Nov
'04
2:15 a.m.
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Tore S Bekkedal wrote:
That is the most obvious fake I have ever seen. It
made its rounds on
IRC as a joke about two months ago.
It is a fake, and a very bad one at that. The worst job is the paper
coming down from the "teletype".
Wow, you're right. I got totally duped. I looked at the photo for all
but 2 seconds :(
But isn't the typewriter a horribly stretched
DECWriter? And did they
even have sprocket feed paper in 1954?
Heck, FORTRAN didn't even exist in '54, did it?
Well, it was begun in 1954.
And, I mean, come on, a large <US name for boat
steering wheel>?
Nice touch.
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