You forgot to add (c) ZX80 Computer Weekly Oct 1980 to the end of the Joke, be careful they might sue.
Oh aye Rick... us old Fortran geezers would stand around at work cracking jokes about Laplasse transforms and j notation all the time. Oh how we'd laugh!
RE: Oh aye Rick... Sounds like a golden age. I vividly remember seeing someone sit on some chewing gum in the park when I was a young lad. How we laughed.
RE: Truely a golden age.... Slide rule as a trombone eh. You guys were crazy. I used to use a compass to draw a circle and it didn't matter how much colouring in I did, I could never hide the little hole on the middle. People don't know they're born do they?