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  Re: It's Time AFOL Take Action!
 
(...) At £4.25 ($5.95?) per issue, it gets to the point where you buy it *specifically* for the articles! Stu C. University of Glasgow (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Age average
 
(...) I may not have it exactly right, but I think 1200 _BAUD_ is as fast as modems go. They've just figured out how to separate BPS from BAUD... My first computer was an Ohio Scientific C1P with 4k RAM plus 1k video memory. There was very little (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Age average
 
Talk about a blast from the past... I remember my first computer being a Timex Sinclair, it had little chiclet keys, very little memory.. and you had to program it to do anything because it didn't seem like there was anything written for it.. It (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Dino Names (was: Tricerablock's horns)
 
(...) ~ yingshanosaurus, chinese cousin in the steg family. i have the smithsonian toy model of this one... very elegant looking too, i must say. later ~ craig~ (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Dino Names (was: Tricerablock's horns)
 
(...) "Minmi"! (...) Would it be Polacanthus or Anklyosaurus. Anklyosaurus was a little fella though, about the size of a pny I think Pete Callaway (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Dino Names (was: Tricerablock's horns)
 
(...) They suck! So that would make me a antiantidisestablish...itarian;-) -John (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Dino Names (was: Tricerablock's horns)
 
(...) Louiedepalmasaurus? Marylourettidon? -John (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Dino Names (was: Tricerablock's horns)
 
(...) Well, that clue wouldn't've helped me much, if I hadn't known the dino's name. Personally, I would've said that it sounds like an annoying singer's name from an early '80s animated TV series. :) Jeff P.S. For those wondering, the name is (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Dino Names (was: Tricerablock's horns)
 
(...) That'd be the Emu! Oh, wait, you want classical dinos. The answer is "Minmi"! Here's an easy one: What dinosaur looks like Stegosaurus but has spikes instead of plates on its back? Jeff (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Age average
 
(...) [ ratcheting up the rhetoric one more notch ] Somewhere off to the right of me (in a pile of non-Lego stuff) is my second hobby computer, a SWTPC-6800. One of the '75-'76 breed. It has a whole whopping 20K of ram in it :) My first was the MITS (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)


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