...that early in my "career" with Flatline, Comatose, Torpor & Drowse I was occasionally required to serve a fortnight in the "ADP Room" (today the lair of our LAN guy, directly above the space I had to vacate a few months ago), where I operated punched-card machines to match shipments cleared through Customs to documents subsequently filed to make these imports copacetic with the USG. I was using, in 1980, electromechanical technology configured around a technology standard settled upon in 1928. My father, now quite frail, was just seven back then. Sheesh. Of course, for seven years after 1980, following my elevation to the International Division, my "database" consisted of a bank of about forty file drawers, the contents of which it was my responsibility manually to track. These days you'd look long and hard to find file cabinets in what remains of the ID here...

cordially,