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| From | Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: New Programmer's Drink? |
| Date | 2021-11-28 19:32 -0500 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
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Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> writes:
> On 26 Nov 2021 19:47:04 -0400, Mike Spencer
> <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>> In 1953, I was 11 years old when I first heard of "phosphates" from
>> someone 90+ years old.
> In 1953 I was drinkig phosphates at Woolworth's lunch counter.
> When I had a dime.
> Or was it a nickel?
Probably a nickel; a nickel ($0.05 coin, for those not from North America)
would buy a bottle of Coca-Cola from a machine as late as 1960.
--
Rich Alderson news@alderson.users.panix.com
Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
--Galen
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