It involved moving mountains and eradicating disease and inventing and constructing by far the hugest locks and lock gates ever conceived at the time and even a 1914 General Electric computer system to run it all.

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It also said that Mr. Freeh's findings, which were based partly on a handful of emails among former Penn State officials, didn't acknowledge that most emails from the relevant time period weren't available due to a computer system change.

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They also said that Mr. Freeh's report was based largely on a handful of emails between Mr. Paterno and other former Penn State officials but didn't acknowledge that due to a computer system change most emails from the relevant time period weren't available.

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At the time, Mr. Dotcom set up a software-hacker community and a computer system used to upload pirated software from others, Mr. Bogk said.

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He's got a crush on his computer operating system, named Tammy, and has the great misfortune of getting stuck in a time loop.

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Last week an unnamed tax officer told the BBC the department had not been fit for purpose for a very long time and had reached "melting point" without the staff or resources needed and subject to an "atrocious" computer system.

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