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- From: gothick@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Matthew B. M. Gibson)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Phone number delete (was: You know you've been hacking too long...)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.153142.13923@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 15:31:42 GMT
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- johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au (John Verhoeven) writes:
-
- >Telecom Australia (The local phone company) was selling these horrrible
- >things called OPD's (the "OPD" stood for One Per Desk). It was a
- >combined phone & computer using Sinclair micro floppies based on the
- >Sinclair QL I think.
-
- >They started off at some some fantastic price in the 1000s of Aussie
- >dollars.
-
- >Nowdays you're unlucky if you can find one.
-
- Well, a friend of mine found one in a skip a little while back, took it
- home and it worked first time (maybe I should put this in the 'toughest
- computers' thread...) They use it as an answerphone - the thing even
- has a programmable speech-synth outgoing message!
-
- >I believe they were the equivalent of the Ford Edsel in terms of runaway
- >sales success :-)
-
- Still, they're cute if you're not trying to use them for anything serious...
-
-
- Matt
-
- >--
-
- >John Verhoeven johnv@acix.DIALix.oz.au _--_|\
- >Treasurer, Amiga Developers (ALT: johnv@DIALix.oz.au) / \
- >Association of Western Australia Phone: (+619) 478 1406 *_.--._/
-
- --
- Matthew B. M. Gibson:
- gothick@dcs.warwick.ac.uk - mgibson@nyx.cs.du.edu - csudo@csv.warwick.ac.uk
- "Great. I'm a million miles from home, about to be killed, with a
- gung-ho iguana who tells me to relax"
-