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        "plaintext": "Sherman, set the WABAC machine to about 2006, I guess. "
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        "plaintext": "I hadn't actually had anything other than a point-and-shoot camera in my hands in quite some time. I used to borrow one of those Sony Mavica MVC FD90 cameras from work just about every weekend though. Anyone remember those? You'd put a 1.44 MB (that's megabyte, not gigabyte) floppy disk in the thing as your storage medium. The disk would hold about six shitty 1.6-megapixel images on it, so if you were going anywhere, you'd either have to be really picky about what you shot or take a box of floppies with you. Not the world's best experience, but I was taking photos, yeah?"
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