Quiz Time - update

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Tue Oct 26 21:50:03 1999

Didn't AMF make a line of Totalisators? Could it be one of those?

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Ward Griffiths wrote:

> allisonp_at_world.std.com wrote:
> >
> > My guess is the cash register ot back office accounting. I believe AMF
> > (who once owned harley davidson) was pretty diversified. The machine had
>
> Please, don't remind on old Hog Jockey about the AMF years. It was
> as though Fischer-Price had bought DEC rather than Compaq doing so.
> (Though I doubt that Fischer-Price could manage to do as much damage
> to DEC as AMF did to HD).
> --
> Ward Griffiths
>
> "It is not merely that I dislike, distrust and disbelieve anyone who
> seeks
> political office. I would extend privacy rights even to politicians
> were it
> not for two countervailing circumstances. First, they themselves
> violate
> privacy rights wholesale. They regulate virtually everything that
> peaceful
> people can do behind closed doors, from taking drugs to having sex. It
> is
> elitist hypocrisy for them to demand the privacy rights that they
> routinely
> deny to ordinary people. If a politician wishes me to respect his
> personal
> life, then he needs to respect mine." Wendy McElroy
>

M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
215 Shady Lea Road,
North Kingstown, RI 02852

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