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10-16-2019 at 12:06 PM
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It was inevitable...And just not fair!

News from my alma-mater. Why was THIS not available, when I attended school back in the 90's?

(OH right, too busy getting a worthless degree in Economics)



https://www.albany.edu/news/92534.php?fbclid=IwAR1yLjionolZYa1uXUNkn8LJuJY3FDb ExWKYIKHWh__QxcgZgaVWRoBrB9k

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  1. Snowflake's Avatar

    why was this not available when you attended school in the 1890s? um because your'e old?

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  2. Marcade's Avatar

    Quote Originally Posted by Snowflake

    why was this not available when you attended school in the 1890s? um because your'e old?


    And you have not shaven since the 1890's ! Can you AFFORD a razor?

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  3. Snowflake's Avatar

    I’ve rescued lots of razors from the trash

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  4. Marcade's Avatar

    Quote Originally Posted by Snowflake

    I’ve rescued lots of razors from the trash


    This was SnowFAKE...Back in his day

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  5. Snowflake's Avatar

    although i have no memory of this it does sound like something i would say

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  6. datagod's Avatar

    Back in the 90's the computers at colleges were from the 80's. The e-sports teams were playing text adventures while speed running twinkies and Jolt(r) Cola

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  7. Marcade's Avatar

    Quote Originally Posted by datagod

    Back in the 90's the computers at colleges were from the 80's. The e-sports teams were playing text adventures while speed running twinkies and Jolt(r) Cola


    Ya, I was there before anything Windows. We had DOS and VAX. Email was a new thing and very popular.

    NES and Genesis were the popular dorm room consoles.

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  8. Barthax's Avatar

    Quote Originally Posted by Marcade



    Ya, I was there before anything Windows. We had DOS and VAX. Email was a new thing and very popular.

    NES and Genesis were the popular dorm room consoles.


    Oh dear. Writing COBOL on a VAX system, I thought I'd buried those memories! :P

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  9. EVN's Avatar

    Quote Originally Posted by Barthax



    Oh dear. Writing COBOL on a VAX system, I thought I'd buried those memories! :P


    I have pleasant memories of the day I unplugged our VAX for good.

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  10. datagod's Avatar

    When I discovered I could dial in to the school's computer system and write cobol from home, I thought I was finally living in the future. No need to walk all the way across the road and interact with live humans. Of course my roommate's neurotic girlfriend would phone every 20 minutes looking for him until I figured out the dialing code to disable call waiting. That made her panic thinking he was on the phone with some other girl. Good time.

    Call waiting was a tool of the devil!

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