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From: clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: C obfuscator
Message-ID: <1990May30.150847.20305@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Date: 30 May 90 19:08:47 GMT
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jensting@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Jens Tingleff) writes:

>...Actually, the use of magnetic media takes away a lot of the mechanical
>charm of computer background storage. Paper tape and punched cards are more
>*FUN*. Think of the endless fun you can have putting together a stack of cards
>dropped on the floor....

Kind of like rerolling a big roll of paper whose middle has fallen out.
Basically, it's better to retype your program from scratch.

Seems like it's been a few years since we posted this kind of old-timer
stuff, at least in the groups I read.  What fun to tell the same old stories
again...  Just ask me about Jodrell Bank!
--
Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4
              (416) 978-4058
	clarke@csri.toronto.edu     or    clarke@csri.utoronto.ca
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