olddataman
Experienced Member
This is posted wih apologies and acknowledgements to Ms.Lou Ellen Davis, who had it published in Datqmatioin magazine if the summer of 1962 or thereabouts.
DATAMATRON
Gung Ho, automation!
And dinner gets cold
While daddy's debugging
And mommie grows old.
Alone with our offspring
And memories proficient
Of times when "by hand"
Was considered sufficient.
I too have a memory
With stored information
On years of togetherness
Pre-automaation.
A girl from the office
I'd know how to fight
But that's not where daddy
Is spending the night.
I've lost and I know it.
He thinks that it's fun
Hey, how do you poison
An Osbone 1?
The punch line was originally "A 1401?" I just brought it up to date when I first used in my computer store newsletter. I assume all you vintage compute buffs would know what an Osborne 1 is.
I still have the original clipping from Datamation, but it is getting kind of yellowed with age.
My wife claims hat this was obviously written for her. Notice that it is still appropriate, which is one of those things that makes the computer industry so fascinatiing to me. Everything changes constantly, yet it doesn't!
Ray
DATAMATRON
Gung Ho, automation!
And dinner gets cold
While daddy's debugging
And mommie grows old.
Alone with our offspring
And memories proficient
Of times when "by hand"
Was considered sufficient.
I too have a memory
With stored information
On years of togetherness
Pre-automaation.
A girl from the office
I'd know how to fight
But that's not where daddy
Is spending the night.
I've lost and I know it.
He thinks that it's fun
Hey, how do you poison
An Osbone 1?
The punch line was originally "A 1401?" I just brought it up to date when I first used in my computer store newsletter. I assume all you vintage compute buffs would know what an Osborne 1 is.
I still have the original clipping from Datamation, but it is getting kind of yellowed with age.
My wife claims hat this was obviously written for her. Notice that it is still appropriate, which is one of those things that makes the computer industry so fascinatiing to me. Everything changes constantly, yet it doesn't!
Ray