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    University Buries Its 47-Year-Old Mainframe Computer in a Touching Ceremony

    When Betelgeuse, the University of Manitoba's 47-year-old mainframe computer, breathed its last recently, the computer science department turned out in full to pay their last respects. There's a corking video of the university's director of Administrative Systems, Marvin Kocay, eulogizing over the mainframe's demise, after the jump.

    Touching stuff. [University of Manitoba via BoingBoing]


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