OT: Employees and the snowflake generation

[Levi Jones]

But the Plowman never had anything like that.

Plenty of others like the DEC LSI-11s had internal hard drives too.

[Bob Eager]

I have one, although the drive is probably dead by now.

[tim...]

Shredding ribbons after use was fairly routine, even for just commercial confidential stuff

tim

[whisky-dave]

No it was the external HD20 for the Mac 512K and usuable on the Macplus and almost any Mac that had a SCSI interface.

[Robin]

Especially the "one-time" carbon film ribbons which could be read like ticker tape!

[Cursitor Doom]

That was the plot from an old Columbo episode.

[spuorgelgoog]

Has there ever been such a thing as a *new* Columbo episode?

Owain

[tabbypurr]

IIRC there was a sizeable time gap between old and new series. The new aped the style of the old all it could, but he could not hide his age when it came to a fight. All he could do was move out the way without speed.

NT

[bert]

A long time ago in a galaxy far ......