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2026-05-10 10:30 UTC

@MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone @kauer@aus.social I was in first year Uni, bored with my courses and looking around for something to do. We booked time on the vacuum tube computer and wrote a program in Fortran that was supposed to list prime numbers, pull them apart and look for relationships with other primes. I made a mistake in memory allocation - it had 32 Kb of memory (yes that's right Kb). We left the program running and came back in the morning. It had printed about a thousand pages with the one message on each line. 'Logical bucket number out of reach' I've forgotten what the term 'bucket number' means. So it goes.

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