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Re: Atlanta 2600 meeting

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From: Gail/Empress/Technobum
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1995 00:00
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>Actually, I think you're referring to "crackers," not hackers _per se._
>Crackers are the illegal nuisance ratfaces.  Hackers are, well, not.  While
>hacker is harder to define, the term might include serious programmers,
>people for whom computers, computing, and other branches of technology
>are a hobby bordering on a passion.

>One might, in fact, refer to some of them as "technobums."  ;)

Really Wes?
Tell me more.  This is so fascinating.

Gail
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Gail Rosen
Georgia Institute of Technology: gt2504a, empress@techwood.org
"Electrical Engineers do it with less resistance"
I speak for no one but myself... and sometimes not even.
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Subject: Re: Atlanta 2600 meeting
Date: 1995/07/01
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