James,
Thursday, October 9, 2003, 11:16:26 AM, you wrote:
[snip]
> But, probably the _best_ answer was received from Don MacQ, who noted that he
> had never seen a machine operator as well dressed and perfectly coiffed as the
> one in the picture!
> That just cracked me up as my mind sifted through all the operators I could
> recall from the era, which brought forth an image of a particularly scrofulous
> lot.
i worked with a guy named larry on the 360. just me and larry on the
midnight shift. you could still smoke in the computer room at that
time, but larry was trying to give up smoking. one night he was
chewing on a green felt-tip pen instead of smoking a butt. i will
never forget the green drool larry had running down his chin about
3am.
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