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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: walker idea
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 18:20:22 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- >Edmond Jordan (e-jordan@students.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- >
- >
- >: ok go to a hardware store..get a handle and put on the
- >: damn case and call it a portable..At lease you will be able
- >: carry it like a luggage of something..oh get a bowling ball like
- >: bag too with Amiga sign on it or something..
- >
- >
- >: -EJ
- >
- >
- >They should staple a rooster to the Walker case..
- >
- >That way, Amiga Tech could say it has a fucking alarm clock which
- >was designed to go off when the sun comes up in the morning, regardless
- >of wherever you are in the world.. It takes up 0% processor time, no
- >wattage, its highly configurable, considering you have the chjoice of
- >keeping it stapled to your system, or you can choose to eat it with a
- >side of beans and carrots.
- >
- >That way, Amiga Tech can save 15 cents they would have normally had to
- >spend on a pesky battery-powered clock!
- >
- >Has anyone here stopped and thought to themselves, about the Walker:
- >
- >"Does this look like the work of a company that knows what its doing?"
- >
- >--
- >Bowie J. Poag
-
- No ... but we continually read your words of wit and ask ourselves:
-
- "How did this nut ever get loose and on the streets?"
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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- ... You can make it foolproof
- But you can't make it damn foolproof.
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