Re: 1967 SCM ad "Do your taxes the easy way!"

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From: Charles Richmond
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:04

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On 4/18/2018 7:33 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:28:31 +0100
> Gareth's Downstairs Computer
> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 18/04/2018 12:37, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>> On 17 Apr 2018 11:23:26 GMT
>>> Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Justifying a home computer was really hard before the internet.
>>>
>>> 	Indeed, during the brief period I was running an ISP (1994/5) I
>>> got a phone call from one person who had read our advert and wanted
>>> advice on what sort of computer to buy to best access the internet
>>> since they'd had no reason to own one before.
>>>
>>
>> I disagree with those sentiments; a computer is such an exciting complex
>> machine that it is a joy to have it just for its own sake.
> 
> 	To you, me (and probably everyone in this froup) that is so, but to
> her and many others a computer is just a tool.
> 

Probably speaking for most everyone on <a.f.c.>, we don't think of 
computers as appliances.  Computers have a special place in our hearts 
and our lives!

"One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested." 
           ...-- E. M. Forster

-- 
numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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Subject: Re: 1967 SCM ad "Do your taxes the easy way!"
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