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Back in the old days of computers, when they were large main-frames. I worked as an on-site technician during the day and on call every other week, because it ran 24/7. Every 2-3 days one of us would get called in after midnight because the little 5'0" Asian lady operator could turn the knurled knobs to open the line printer to replace the box of paper. The operator on the previous shift was 6'6" and always said he only tightened them "finger tight".

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I remember our ibm tech trying to tell us about the "stoned virus" that was spreading from floppy to floppy... He explained that "IBM has a program that scans the VTOC on the DASD for it."

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I worked for their competitor. The customer was a big govt site. One side of the building was IBM, and we were on the other side. Sometimes we'd get called in late at night or on the weekends. Get to the site and the customer would try to talk us into fixing one of the IBM machines, because the IBM guys weren't 24/7 coverage. Sometimes we'd go look, and if it was something obvious we would tell the customer what to do to try to fix it, but we couldn't touch it.

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I wouldn't trust that nigger around my property.

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Doubles as a tool to help shoplifters open the security cases.

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Like the so old joke punchline.

So you can carry them around like a 6 pack.