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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!keele!news
  2. From: u2d92@seq1.keele.ac.uk (MJ Gumbley)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
  4. Subject: Re: The PET
  5. Message-ID: <BzpKBq.946@gabriel.keele.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 23 Dec 92 10:40:38 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec22.131337.22119@zds-oem.zds.com>
  8. Sender: news@gabriel.keele.ac.uk (UseNet News Service)
  9. Organization: Keele University, England
  10. Lines: 22
  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: seq1.cc.keele.ac.uk
  12.  
  13. From article <1992Dec22.131337.22119@zds-oem.zds.com>, by benjamin@zds-oem.zds.com (Adam Benjamin):
  14. > I vaguely remember playing some text adventure written in basic on a PET
  15. > at the local Community college.  I only remember falling into a pool that
  16. > was full of mercury... anyway,  What did (does?) PET stand for? anything?
  17. > is it Pretty Electronic Thing?  Programable Electronics & Transistors?
  18. > What what?
  19. > 
  20. > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
  21. >    //   benjamin@zds-oem.zds.com  OR    af987@yfn.ysu.edu
  22. >  \X/  Adam Benjamin          Insert snappy humor here
  23. > \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
  24.  
  25.   As I recall, it stood for "Personal Electronic Translator" (Could have
  26. been Transactor... hmmm...)
  27.  
  28.   Pity about the name, really, because they had to change it when they
  29. marketed it in France... Hmmm... Apt, really!
  30.  
  31. --
  32. Matt J. Gumbley              || Still needs a good signature, not liking
  33. u2d92@seq1.cc.keele.ac.uk    || any of his recent feeble improvements on:
  34. University of Keele, England || Why can't _I_ think of a good signature?
  35.