[ih] internet-history Digest, Vol 83, Issue 5

[dot at dotat.at (Tony Finch)]

John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:

> If we are talking about accounting on mainframes for job time, etc back in the
> day, they all did it to a greater or lesser degree, especially on university
> systems.

This reminds me of http://dotat.at/random/info.eagle.current.status
which is infamous to Cambridge computer users of a certain age - to the
extent that it spawned the word "balge" meaning "by and large good
enough".

Tony.
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