Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for May 16, 2023

Sorry Herbie don’t think that thing has a ghost of a chance of working.

IBM Selectric

Computer and old CRT monitor defenestration is an appropriate action.

That system has a few bugs in it… sort of like the one that Grace Hopper worked on waaay back when…

Computers are not our friends……..

whaled, not wailed

Or hauled.

Hardly a flat-screen monitor.

Wailed? No, whaled.

I operated a varityper in college for its’ newspaper. It’s pronounced ‘vari-typer,’ by the way.

She could have “whaled on it” but never heard of “whaling out the window”. Yes, “whale” is the proper spelling for repeatedly striking something.

In 2007 I was working at Lockheed Martin’s Rocket Ranch outside Denver and one office had an Apple II on a desk. I would have loved to fire up that puppy to see if it worked.

On the “Whale/Wail” controversy, I found this:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whale_on

which lists “wail” as a slang form of “whale”…

Who knew. Rita likes to recycle.

It needs a new Hercules monitor.