Re: Batch file revisited

From: Kirk Halgren (khalgren_at_sti.nasa.gov)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:06:01 -0500

"John Wester [Group W]" <rot13.wjrfgre@gryhf.arg> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c56d6adfa08625d9898db@newsgroups.borland.com...
> In article <41ed24ab$1@newsgroups.borland.com>, cshannon@d4sw.com
> says...
> > And BTW--I'm probably one of the oldest fellers here (9/11/58, the day
> > Robert Service died).
> >
> >
> Beat ya by 2. (1956.04.29, the day Joan of Arc leads Orleans France, to
> victory over English and the day that Rubber is patented)

I was born 10/10/49, and my first language was FORTRAN on punch cards, input
to an IBM 360/55 a little over 35 years ago.

10/10/...
1850, Chesapeake & Ohio canal finished
1911, uprising began, which led to the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the
founding of the Republic of China
1973, Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with income tax evasion

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