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- From: shepa@sersun1 (Shepherd A J)
- Newsgroups: alt.galactic-guide
- Subject: The Real HHGGTTG..
- Message-ID: <7779@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 09:03:11 GMT
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- This is the text of a letter I have been asked to post. No spelling or
- caps flames please, I did not write this. This posting is a text file as
- I received it. Share and enjoy...
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- David Hodges
- 68 Gotch Road
- Barton Seagrave
- Kettering
- Northamptonshire
- NN15 6UQ
- ENGLAND
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- Hi Guys
- This is to inform you that you are not the only people
- running a HITCH-HIKERS GUIDE -
- I have been running (WITH THE PERMISSION OF DOUGLAS ADAMS)
- a huge database known as the "REAL HITCH-HIKERS GUIDE TO THE
- GALAXY" which I use to raise money for various charities at
- Science Fiction conventions.
- At these conventions people can browse through the pages of the
- GUIDE, add new pages, or even bid for the printout in an auction.
- The next convention where I hope to be a major attraction will
- be VOCON (SEPT-OCT 93 IN THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND )It is a con
- covering all of the work of DOUGLAS ADAMS- if you want details
- of this con or ZZ9 PLURAL Z ALPHA (THE HITCH-HIKERS APPRECIATION
- SOCIETY) or my GUIDE please write to me at the above address.
- My guide has now been running for well over 5 years and I have
- over 650 pages covering over 1200 subjects,
- With sampled sound and title picture the files occupies about
- 14 mega bytes (I am always after more pages) I send a "BODY
- DEBIT CARD" to anyone who writes a decent entry and I want entrys
- on all subjects.
- Unfortunately I an not into comms so you would have to write to
- me.
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- MY DATABASE RUNS ON A MODIFIED ATARI MEGA4 WITH 16Mhz CPU
- AND 105 MEG QUANTUM HD.
- the software was written for me and is a cardfile type database
- (with a read only idiot proof version for use at cons.
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- THE LAST CONVENTION I WENT TO WAS IN KIEV THE CAPITOL OF THE
- UKRAINE IN THE FORMER U.S.S.R. (AND VERY NEAR CHERNOBYL).
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- Look up, Look Down, Look at Mr. Frying Pan - SPLAT! -
- ---> Antony J. "Doppelganger" Shepherd - shepa@essex.ac.uk <---
- Freedom for Tooting!
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