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ilikejam on April 17, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers...

That makes me feel kind of sad. A once-mighty machine waiting hopefully in the dark for an Operator to load a tape.

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But the Operators never arrive.

johnohara on April 17, 2013 | [–]

If I recall correctly the prompt was:

boot> _

The developers should have put a countdown timer in there. Each hour, add a question mark and change it to:

boot?> _ boot??> _ boot???> _ hello? boot?> _

Aloha on April 17, 2013 | [–]

wow, this comment made me whimper a little inside.

andrewflnr on April 17, 2013 | [–]

Grab some tissues. http://xkcd.com/695/

Aloha on April 18, 2013 | | [–]

not fair!

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