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- From: mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin)
- Subject: Re: Walker = 1970's 8-Track Player
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- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:37:30 GMT
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- Paul Chan (paul) wrote:
- :
- : The external case of the walker is a travesty though. I`ll take bland beige
- : and boxy over this design. It`s not Bohemian, it`s just Bad. They could have
- : taken a leaf out of the SGI book and cashed in the the awesome looks of some
- : of those machines (especially the Onyx and Indigo) or they could have gone for
- : the more retarined SunWorkstation look. Instead, we Amigans have started to
- : slag off the design by calling it "vacuum cleaner" and "dung beetle" before
- : the Mac and PC users even get a look in. Come on AT, get real, what happened
- : to that picture of the mini-tower Amiga way back at the start?
-
- "Vacuum cleaner" and "dung beetle" are tearms of endearment. :)
-
- Incidentally, I just brought a pic of the Walker up to the 4th year
- honours computing lab (aka "room full 'o computer geeks"), and it got
- a round of "Coooooooool"s.
-
- It's different, it's pretty, and it's memorable.
-
- Reg Martin
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