Re: Announcing: Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal

[mol@bartlet.df.lth.se (Magnus Olsson)]

In article <slrn7s56dn.4ii.jcn-martin-keegan@cavan.jesus.cam.ac.uk>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>Truly? I have seen some stupefyingly boring MPEGs, but one of an IBM
>>mainframe being shut down would vie for top of the list. Or is it more
>>exciting than I know? Do they shut them down with amatol or something?
>>Cool!
>
>People get very sentimental about old mainframes around here. This
>probably goes to show something or other, but I'm sure I don't know what.

I think the text you get when you type "inform" in one of the games
goes a long way towards explaining just why people would be nostalgic
about their old mainframe.



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