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Daithi · 08-07-2008, 04:29 PM

About 20 years ago I remember a cartoon with a computer scientist type guy standing in front of a huge computer. In the computer scientist's hands was a PC, and while looking at the huge computer the guy says, "Now look at who's getting replaced by modern technology."

Another one I liked showed an office with a bunch of desks, and clothes line that ran above all the desks. Hanging from the clothes line were pieces of paper. An office worker in the picture is saying, "Maybe our new system could use those ribbed clothes pins, and we wouldn't lose as many documents." The caption under the picture said, "Why the Computer Dept. doesn't ask for your opinion."

Lastly, several years ago we had a refrigerator sized computer called a Pyramid that ran UNIX, and while looking through the manual I came across a page that had the name of a command, and where the description of the command should have been it said,

"Someone stole this page out of the manual."

This was actually printed in their manual.

08-07-2008, 04:29 PM	#76
Daithi Publishers are evil! Posts: 2,418 Karma: 36205264 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Rhode Island Device: Various Kindles	About 20 years ago I remember a cartoon with a computer scientist type guy standing in front of a huge computer. In the computer scientist's hands was a PC, and while looking at the huge computer the guy says, "Now look at who's getting replaced by modern technology." Another one I liked showed an office with a bunch of desks, and clothes line that ran above all the desks. Hanging from the clothes line were pieces of paper. An office worker in the picture is saying, "Maybe our new system could use those ribbed clothes pins, and we wouldn't lose as many documents." The caption under the picture said, "Why the Computer Dept. doesn't ask for your opinion." Lastly, several years ago we had a refrigerator sized computer called a Pyramid that ran UNIX, and while looking through the manual I came across a page that had the name of a command, and where the description of the command should have been it said, "Someone stole this page out of the manual." This was actually printed in their manual. Last edited by Daithi; 08-07-2008 at 04:34 PM.