The fun-lovin’ computer scientists at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg held a funeral for their retired 47-year-old IBM 650 mainframe, Betelgeuse. The festivities included pallbearers who carried the machine out onto the frozen, snowy lawn, a brass band that played a mournful New Orleans style Amazing Grace during the procession (and broke into joyous Down by the Riverside when it was over), and an hilarious eulogy that was greatly appreciated by the attendees, many of whom sported prodigious, Unix-grade facial hair.

Here’s the eulegy.
"For forty-seven years you’ve served us well, you cast us in your green spell. You processed transactions without complaint, we’ve asked the Pope to make you a saint.

The world feels a little smaller now that you are gone Betelgeuse…

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