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Article #621843Re: 1967 SCM ad "Do your taxes the easy way!"
From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:33
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:33
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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. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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