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  3. From: waterman@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (T.S. Waterman)
  4. Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,alt.folklore.computers
  5. Subject: Re: R
  6. Message-ID: <waterman.724975301@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
  7. Date: 21 Dec 92 22:01:41 GMT
  8. References: <1h4lbcINNl8u@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
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  11. Organization: CAVEAT Labs, Inc.
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  14. kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
  15.  
  16. >From the Dec 18, 1992 issue of the Langley Researcher:
  17.  
  18. >    A powerful computer known affectionately as "R" has been put
  19. >out to pasture after 16 years of service-- an eternity in the quickly
  20. >changing computer world.
  21. >    "R" is being sold for parts, Cleveland added.  "It cost us three
  22. >million bucks," he said, "and we're selling it for $3,000."
  23.  
  24. I didn't know you had that kind of spare change laying about, Scott.
  25.  
  26. --ts    and think what it'll add to the electric bill.
  27.