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• Subject: longest turnaround time in the world Rumor has it that when they closed down the 7094 at MIT in 1973, they found a low-priority job that had been submitted in 1967 and had not yet been run.
• He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.
• If I only had a 486 . .
• The thought of being President fightens me and I do not think I want the job.
  -- Ronald Reagan in 1973 Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter....
• film at 11 [MIT: in parody of TV newscasters] 1.
  Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering....
• You know you've been hacking too long when... ...you find out that you can't get to sleep
  because you are, in fact, the program you're designing, and can't run to completion as the lower level routines haven't been coded yet....
• EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador.
  An English sea-captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of Erin," replied...
• high moby /hi:' mohb'ee/ n. The high half of a 512K PDP-10's physical address space
  he other half was of course the low moby. This usage has been generalized in a way that has outlasted the PDP-10...
• I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed.
  Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really DO melt in your hand. -- Peter Oakley...