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Re: Words we no longer use
Aye, "dropping your deck" was an occurrance to fear. Might as well go home.
Timeshare system - a mainframe where users bought a portion of the CPU cycles for their jobs.
Line Printer - an electromechanical printer that printed text on wide greenbar a whole line (132 characters) at a time. Blazingly fast. Pre-dot matirx.
Dot Matrix printers.
Bubble Memory
Spark Transmitter
adding machine
linotype
half-space key on a typewriter
turntable, cartridge, needle
tube shield
selenium rectifier
I could go on for days...
Don
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