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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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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)
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(...) ~ 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)
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(...) "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)
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(...) They suck! So that would make me a antiantidisestablish...itarian;-) -John (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Louiedepalmasaurus? Marylourettidon? -John (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) 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)
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(...) 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)
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(...) [ 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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(...) I have to agree, I can't leave a used-bookstore empty-handed if they have any old sci-fi in there. There's something refreshing about its optimism and imagination, especially the 50s-60s era. Unfortunately modern sci-fi tends to reflect recent (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Thanks! There are plenty of cars that should be on the site but aren't. About every other time I look in a Road&Track, I see another car which might fit :) I don't plan on changing the site, though--too much work. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ (...) (26 years ago, 17-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) i overly geeked on this answer. just to set the record straight before one of you other dino geeks catch it, micropachycephalosaur means "tiny thick-headed lizard" (i've known a few, lol!). one of the tiniest known dinosaurs at about 20 inches (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) sorry, john, it's not troodon. was "small"(= micro..) a clue in the first question? i missed it if it was. here's a clue for the shortest dino name: armor down under, or america's favorite midget. he he he! later ~ dino-craigo-lego! (26 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Would that make you an Antidisestablishment...usitarian? <grin & duck> James (URL) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) "Troodon"? -John (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Are we forgetting Antidisestablishment...saurus...? };^D -John Dinogeek Neal (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) of course! the "tiny hadrosaur", only abot 8 ft long... supposedly. the identity on this one is rather doubtful, because so little of it was found. ok. (rolling up sleaves) care to take a guess as to the _shortest_ dino name? he he he later ~ (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yup, it is the November 1999 issue. The cover says "Inca Sacrifice" in big letters. I'll let ya'll know how the article was when I finish reading it. Jeff (26 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Actually, I was refering to micropachycephalosaurus, with 23 letters. :) Ahh... I love Dino Trivia! I'll see if I can find some more stuff to quiz ya on! :) Jeff P.S. I think *I* just outed myself as a total Dino Geek. :) P.P.S (...) (26 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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