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Subject: Hydra, Adams, and my old physics professor.

Author: Mark Ryan

Date: 00:51:48 06/21/05


In 1969, my physics professor led our class into a small room where there was a
time-sharing computer terminal.  The terminal consisted of something that looked
like a teletype machine, and a printer, and it was hooked up to a mainframe
computer at some university.

The professor connected to the mainframe, and he started to explain something to
us.  Suddenly he interrupted himself, and he said, "You need to understand
something about computers:  they are as fast as lightning, and they have a
wonderful memory, but they are as stupid as all hell."

!!!!!

Go, Adams.




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