Yep it sucks when back in the day becomes a common term. I do remember back in the day splicing that stuff and buying peroxide in the BIG container because your hands got so cut-up splicing that crap. Lucky enough to be able to splice a couple of nodes of it by Lake Samammish in Washington state.
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