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Article #621847Re: 1967 SCM ad "Do your taxes the easy way!"
From: Kerr-MuddJohn
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 20:18
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 20:18
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 17:06:54 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > On 2018-04-20, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: >> 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! > > *applause* [vigorous nodding] > Maybe; but we're just 1 generation on from steam train enthusiasts. (I'm now writing a forth for DOS) -- Bah, and indeed, Humbug.
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