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14. We had those Data General machines in the 1980's.

Wed Mar 25, 2026, 10:25 PM

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Forest Service. Cutting edge stuff at the time. We had internal email a long time before anybody else did. I read the book.

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We had those Data General machines in the 1980's. jeffreyi 5 hrs ago #14

I worked at Data General around the time this book was written. nclib 1 hr ago #15