Re: I'm new!

The Gray Wizard wrote:

> All this reminds me of the "yellow green card" of IBM assembler language
> days, but I'm dating myself here.
From the Jargon File
(http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/green-card.html):

# An anecdote from IBM refers to a scene that took place
# in a programmers' terminal room at Yorktown in 1978. A *luser* overheard
# one of the programmers ask another "Do you have a green card?" The other
# grunted and passed the first a thick yellow booklet. At this point the
# luser turned a delicate shade of olive and rapidly left the room, never to
# return.
#
# In fall 2000 it was reported from Electronic Data Systems that the green
# card for 370 machines has been a blue-green booklet since 1989.

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