[Nottingham] Light relief

Martin martin at ml1.co.uk
Wed Nov 28 21:40:44 UTC 2012


On 28/11/12 21:21, Jason Irwin wrote:
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> I just got this:
>  _______________________________________
> / Q: How many IBM 370's does it take to \
> | execute a job? A: Four, three to hold |
> \ it down, and one to rip its head off. /
>  ---------------------------------------
>         \   ^__^
>          \  (oo)\_______
>             (__)\       )\/\
>                 ||----w |
>                 ||     ||
> 
> 
> I laughed out loud at that.  It's  probably only funny if you've had
> dealing with 370's (or similar) though.  God I feel old now.

Mooo!

And there are those of us here who witnessed and remember the last
"once-in-a-hundred-years" flood of this locality! (OK, so that was only
in Nov 2000 :-P ...)


More worryingly... Are we not moving back to the old mainframe days with
everythin'-in-the-cloud?... :-(

Cheers,
Martin

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