Huw Davies wrote:
>
> At 11:07 PM 22-05-98 -0400, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
>
> >Yeah, but you Brits have got _weird_ concepts in transportation.
> >The Morris Minor for instance never should have been licensed as
> >an automobile -- a four-wheeled powered bicycle on its best day.
>
> Hey, this is getting personal :-) The world seems a different place behind
> the wheel of my 1948 Minor Low Light. I'll admit it's not powerful, but
> that's not the point!
>
> To add a little (very small) bit of historical computing content, I always
> try to think of the way the world was when "Bertie" (the car) was built.
> It's hard to think of an effectively no-computer world. I often wonder what
> I'd have done for a living if I'd been born 50 years earlier...
Not something I tend to dwell upon, since after I was born in 1955 I
spent almost a month in an an incubator -- if I'd been born even ten
years earlier my chance of living long enough to be circumcised
would have been slim. (Rh factor incompatibility).
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Sun May 24 1998 - 07:12:50 BST