On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 05:18:03PM +0100, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 09:34:52AM -0500, Jay West via cctalk wrote: > >> > >> But that being said... we should have had a party or something *grin*. > >> > > > > You could argue that years are index starting from zero. Thus the > > 20-year celebration is next year and we have ample time to prepare. > > > > (It's what we did when we missed an anniversery for the computer science > > programme). > > At least in the UK it is tradition to celebrate a person's 21st birthday > (coming of age and all that). So perhaps the same applies to mailing > lists :-) > > Somewhere I have a 21st birthday card that a certain classic computer > enthiast (now alas passed away) sent, not to me, but to my PDP11/45...
To be fair, while we may have missed the 020th and 20th anniversaries, we're well ahead of the 0x20th anniversary. So --- what base are we using? -- Thomas L. Kula | k...@tproa.net | http://kula.tproa.net/
