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  1. That 'ol thought experiment.  If you were to suddenly be able to relive your life, but with the knowledge you've gained, what would you do differently?  #1 would be to put as much money into Microsoft when it was first created that I could (and sell it all in August of 1999).  Sure, there are other things, but all of those are only enhanced (or become possible) with sufficient funding!

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  2. 43 minutes ago, Chris Jones said:

    Lol naw, it's "sike" - and I was explaining this to a friend recently, that as slang it's intentionally misspelled

    But yeah sike on the Walmart daw. I got the idea for that joke from the real news that the Gibson and Walmart companies are merging. I suspect we may see Gibson/Equate Les Pauls or just a straight up Equate Les Paul kinda like the old Epiphones. 

    I think you missed the obvious!  Great Value Guitars! 😆

    Not like it matters, they'd probably always be out of stock on the ones you'd really want. 😉

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  3. I somehow missed out on paper tape (NOT complaining! LOL), but also had a class that did the punch cards.  The fun prank was to rubber cement two of the cards together about 2/3's of the way back and put everything back in someone's deck (but weren't those boxes cool?).  They would load their program into the hopper and it would chug along just fine until it hit our "surprise" - hehe...😆

    Coleman had both IBM 370's and a nice 4341 mini-mainframe that was prominently placed right in the middle of the school (and named Kermit).  I actually saw one of the techs fix it with a soldering iron!

    Fortunately, I'm NOT old enough to have ever seen (or performed) true debugging which is where a tube (or valve for you Brits) has attracted and killed a moth or two so someone has to go in there with a feather duster and "de-bug" the workings!

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