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- From: terjej@edb.tih.no (Terje Johansen,o90b)
- Subject: Re: help friendly alien Re: Help with XMS mailer on my Game-Boy?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.130751.24035W@viper.edb.tih.no>
- Sender: terjej@edb.tih.no (Terje Johansen,o90b)
- References: <1992Nov13.170110.12240@ida.liu.se> <shephard.721774898@sfu.ca> <1992Nov17.185607.17577@ncmicro.lonestar.org> <168A4EF1A.EIVERSO@cms.cc.wayne.edu> <1992Nov19.233738.7536@pony.Ingres.COM>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:07:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.233738.7536@pony.Ingres.COM>, garrett@Ingres.COM (WE'RE ONLY HERE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT ALL HERE) writes:
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- >In article <168A4EF1A.EIVERSO@cms.cc.wayne.edu>, glorp@planet.x writes...
- >>>%_}>>Hahaha! Fools! You think that's impressive? I've wired together every
- >>>%_}>>computer on the Internet with Quantum-Thin Wire (tm), and programmed it
- >>>%_}>>to act like a really big abacus. Running 8 x 10^100^10^10^10^4
- >>>%_}>>calculations a millisecond, I hope to solve the equation 5x = 10
- >>>%_}>>by sometime next week. Now _that's_ progress.
- >>>%_}>Then how about this: I've constructed the first computer ever made of one
- >>>%_}>single Hydrogen atom. There are a couple of advantages with it; 1. it can
- >>>%_}>be inhaled for transport; 2. it relies entirely on voice-detecting for input,
- >>>%_}>and a hologram for output (that was the tricky part), and 3. it creates
- >>>%_}>two copies of itself every second, allowing for multiple processes! I'm
- >>>%_}>speaking this reply right now to a cloud in front of me, using a Voice
- >>>%_}>Detection version (mine, really) of X-Windows in 3D. NEXT!
- >>>%_}All accomplishments pale beside mine: Managed to re-write DOS 5.0 so that
- >>>%_}it breaks the the 640K barrier.
- >>
- >>greetings earthlings,
- >>
- >>i am glorp of planet x. my starship has crashed landed on earth.
- >>since there are so many smart earthings here, perhaps one of you
- >>can fix a fleeblebrox generator (model z9999-q) that is on the fritz.
- >>any help will be appreciated.
- >
- >The old z9999-q model. I haven't seen one of those since the Andromeda
- >galaxy imploded. Perhaps one of these lightweight engineers could handle
- >this one.
- >>
- >>adTHANKSvance
- >>glorp of planet x
-
- GREAT! the z9999-q! With double foustach-connection, twin-cam alignment
- and carborator! WHAT a find! Hey, glorp ol' buddy, wanna exchange
- it with something else really rare? Like, um, my pocket calculator
- with only FOUR functions? We got a deal?
-
- --
- Terje Johansen at Trondheim College of Engineering, Norway.
-
- Bury me deep. The next generations will be hungry.
-