November 24, 2000
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As part of his pre-move purge, Mike gave me a wonderfully dog-eared hardcover book called Programming Business Computers. It was first published in 1959, and its pages are littered with poetic references to things like Nonrandom Access Main Memories, Upper & Lower Accumulators, Six-Channel Punched Paper Tape Storage, and something strange and foreign-sounding called Cathode-Ray Tube Output. In the chapter on Flow Charting, I found the following example illustrating the classic concepts of the flow chart in action. Remember when life was as simple as the technology itself? 
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