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(...) It's interesting how we have made action figures out of industrial legends. We imagine new adventures for them, going on to command such-and-such a ship, turning the world inside out, or just repeating the favorite hero moves to comic effect. (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) This is an even more interesting question, because it implies that Woz designed Lego instead of computers. After all, without Woz, Steve Jobs is just another drugged-up early '70s hippie. :) (To be fair, without Jobs, Woz is just another (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey Lar, Did the topic of "WINDOWS" come up at all?? Old, new, current or other colors?? Besides Train windows that is.... Gary Istok (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) And the Studebaker company isn't selling a lot of cars these days even though the Gullwing was an elegant, high quality machine. So was the Avanti. (...) In the area of web sites they have... and *thank goodness* for that. (1) The technology (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.lego.direct, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) You're right. Hrmmm - maybe I saw a price list at the computer store on campus with a misprint or something, or maybe I'm thinking of the low-end iBook. Ok, out of the box the $2500 (guess we get a whole $100 off for educational purchases - (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Huh? The 400mhz model comes with 128mb. That's livable. 256 is swimming. (But some games--theme park world for one--now demand 80mb ram.. won't be long til their kind refuse to run..) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Don't have to necessarily be a PC Nazi to see Apple as 60% hype / 40% product. :) Although you'd have to be a nice PC user to be that generous. (...) They're cheap enough for now, although you'd have to slap another 64m minimum in that (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Yeah, because what's really important in my choice of a computer is how it looks, what shape it is, and what colors it comes in. :) And just think, if I want to run some of those highly-tweaked Photoshop filter benchmarks Jobs is so fond of I (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Heh. Well, when I say "later" I mean "fall" or even "winter" In any case, it has to go through several layers of bureaucracy first. Our IS manager was talking about how the bean counters want him to list all of the entire next year's IS (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I hear it becomes even more likely if you get on a waiting list for one! f.u.t. geek (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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