Yahoo! News Story - Floppy Disk Becoming Relic of the Past (fwd)

[John Lawson]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> Luxury. When I was a boy, we had to transmit using smoke signals *and* a
> shofar for parity bits. And if we lost carrier because of a rainstorm,
> our father would beat us with his strap and dance on our grave.


   Lissen up, young'un!  When I was a kid, I had to git up offa the couch 
and walk *all the way across the living room* - in my stockinged feet, 
mind you! - allllll that way over to th' durn TeeVee just to change th' 
channel! None o' yer fancy-schmancy re-motes back in *my* day!

   THEN: I hadda walk all that way back agin.  And you know what!?!?  Nine 
times outta ten, my goldarn pig of a little sister ate up all my Popcorn 
afore I could get back and watch another Lost in Space. Prime Time, doncha 
know!!!


Cheerz

Methuselah