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> Young people these days have it too easy, Why, when I was a lad, > we had to stay up all night slaving over cuneiform tablets, then load > them into reed baskets on the backs of donkeys bright and early the > following morning for the trek to the abacus room. And none of that > binary or decimal stuff, either - it was straight sexagesimal. But try > to tell the young folks of today was it used to be like and they ignore you. At least *you* had *donkeys*. We carried *our* cuneiform tablets in baskets on our *backs*, through the snow, uphill both ways. Stephen
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