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The IBM 1401 is *fifty* years old this year!

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  1. Fast_ian

    Fast_ian Two Time F1 World Champ

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    Hey,

    While it was announced in the year of my birth, I (vaguely) remember them:

    My iPhone has more HP.... But those 1403 printers worked well.....
     
    Fast_ian, Oct 22, 2009
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  3. Etcetera

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    Your Iphone is 6,722,341x more powerful than every 1401 ever made, combined.
     
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    The iPhone is a LINE PRINTER? :D
     
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    You smell like an old bowling alley.
     
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    ? Editing your post doesn't count...:) How in the WORLD would you have any idea what I smell like
    exactly? I don't, BTW. But we've never even met. Odd comment.
     
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    +1. What's up with the comment? :p
     
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    Korr is a comedic genius. It's all in the delivery, though.

    While furrowing, then raising eyebrows, one must make this "You smell like an old bowling alley" statement with a mixture of *Rod Serling, Alfred Hitchcock, Spencer Tracy as interpreted and delivered by Bill Murray counselor Tripper Harrison in Meatballs* with the key being a delay between "old" and "bowling".

    *We don't have that particular smiley.
     
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