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From: borasky@ogicse.ogi.edu (M. Edward Borasky)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: expression "on the rag"
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Date: 3 Jan 91 17:20:40 GMT
References: <807@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <807@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM> mercer@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) writes:
>else familiar with it?  First heard it in 1987 at RPI.  We had an IBM
>360/50 - then state of the art.
This has GOT to be a typo -- surely you mean 1967!!!  A 360/50 was 
ANNOUNCED in 1964; first delivered in 1965, I think.  State of the art
in 1987?  No way!
>Averaged 50% downtime (real nightmare
Maybe it WAS 1987 -- a 20-year old machine might get 50% uptime.
>Albany is the asshole of the nation,  and Troy is six miles up.
Put THAT in your jargon file!