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From: bill@platypus.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: expression "on the rag"
Message-ID: <216@platypus.uofs.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 91 18:01:50 GMT
References: <807@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM> <1991Jan3.084723@Unify.com>
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In article <1991Jan3.084723@Unify.com>, dgh@Unify.com (David Harrington) writes:
> In article <807@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM>, mercer@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan
> Mercer) writes:
> >                         First heard it in 1987 at RPI.  We had an IBM
>                                             ^^^^
> > 360/50 - then state of the art.  Averaged 50% downtime (real nightmare
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  A strange "state" of "art" indeed, for 1987 :-)

Remember though, we are talking about RPI here!!   :-)




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