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- Path: nyssa.swt.edu!ez13942
- From: ez13942@nyssa.swt.edu (Bo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Garbage In, Garbage Out.
- Date: 29 Feb 96 14:11:50 CST
- Organization: Southwest Texas State University
- Message-ID: <1996Feb29.141150@nyssa.swt.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: nyssa.swt.edu
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- It never ceases to amuse me the ribbing and dumbfounded crap we
- take from owner's of "other" computers over our hobby. While they
- go on pouring enough money to buy a south caribean island into a machine
- running code that's larger than the Bible 10 times over, we accomplish the
- same purposes on our precious CBMs.
-
- Its curious, you know. When someone keeps an old car around, babies it,
- works on it, adds to it, drives it around in style, noone says "Look at this
- dummy driving an out-dated gas guzzler that can't even do 80, and gets
- atrocious gas mileage. The frame is archaic. The windows aren't electric--
- why doesn't he upgrade?". Nah.. they are "enthusiasts of classic automobiles".
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- Well, dammit.... we are "enthusiasts of a classic computer".
-
- 'nuff said.
-
- - Bo
- (geoJunky, at large)
-