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Re: 1958 "desk computer" Royal Precision LGP-30

From "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: 1958 "desk computer" Royal Precision LGP-30
Date 2015-12-14 16:13 -0600
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"Walter Banks" wrote:

> In the mid 60's I had an American sculpture friend that decided that
> Canada was a better place to live with a low draft number than the US
> for the duration of some almost forgotten disagreement in Southeast Asia.

They showed the drawing for draft numbers on TV.  I was highly skeptical of 
anything the government did and thought "They are going to screw this up!". 
I got a clipboard and recorded the numbers as they drew them.  It was 
perfectly obvious just by looking that the numbers had not been mixed 
properly.

Thankfully they only take 40% of my income to do what they do.  (39.6% for 
purists.)

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1958 "desk computer"  Royal Precision LGP-30 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-12-14 10:31 -0800
  Re: 1958 "desk computer"  Royal Precision LGP-30 "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-12-14 13:09 -0600
    Re: 1958 "desk computer"  Royal Precision LGP-30 Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-12-14 17:00 -0800
      Re: 1958 "desk computer"  Royal Precision LGP-30 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-12-15 14:43 -0800
    Re: 1958 "desk computer"  Royal Precision LGP-30 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-12-15 14:26 -0800
  Re: 1958 "desk computer"  Royal Precision LGP-30 Jean-Marc Bourguet <jm@bourguet.org> - 2015-12-14 20:28 +0100
  Re: 1958 "desk computer" Royal Precision LGP-30 Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-12-14 16:26 -0500
    Re: 1958 "desk computer" Royal Precision LGP-30 "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-12-14 16:13 -0600
      Re: 1958 "desk computer" Royal Precision LGP-30 scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-12-15 14:14 +0000
      Re: 1958 "desk computer" Royal Precision LGP-30 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-12-15 14:41 -0800
    Re: 1958 "desk computer" Royal Precision LGP-30 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-12-15 14:34 -0800
    Viet Nam era Selective Service lottery [Re: 1958 "desk computer" Royal Precision LGP-30] Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-12-15 19:39 -0500
  Re: 1958 "desk computer"  Royal Precision LGP-30 "m. thompson" <michael.99.thompson@gmail.com> - 2015-12-15 16:41 -0800
  Re: 1958 "desk computer"  Royal Precision LGP-30 rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2015-12-16 16:18 +0000

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