At 12:40 PM 7/7/01 -0400, you wrote:
>WTF? can we get back on topic here? this is stupid. anyway, in my attempt to
>bring this back ontopic, I found a compaq portable II. other than the floppy
>drives, is there any difference between the II and III models?
Oh yeah, big difference. The II is a re[packages P I and is only
sluightly smaller than a P 1. It still has the CRT. The P!!! is much
smaller, uses a 286 CPU and has a gas plasma screen.
Joe
>In a message dated 7/7/01 12:12:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, edick_at_idcomm.com
>writes:
>
><< It's like recommending that a 120 TTon nuke on TelAviv or Damascus as a
>solution
> to middle-east strife. It would solve a number of problems. The bones of
> contention there, including the bulk of the world's oil supply would be
> essentially gone, (everything from Tehran to well past Cairo, including
>parts of
> Turkey, etc, would be under about a km of glass), thereby reducing the air
> pollution attributable to petroleum use, and it wouldn't be safe to go
> there
>for
> a couple of thousand years, so folks lucky enough to survive here on Earth
>would
> probably forget about that stuff.
>
> It's possible someone might come up with a solution more compatible with the
> interests of the folks who are central to the mid-east struggle,
> however, but
> this would certainly end the fighting.
>
> Dick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 8:15 AM
> Subject: Re: OT Celebration (Not intended to be offensive, possible humor)
>
>
> > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, R. D. Davis wrote:
> >
> > > Why aren't the citizens in the U.K. up in arms over this and bashing
> > > the cameras with rocks and doing other things to render them
> > > ineffective? Why aren't effigies of the politicians who caused this
> > > to happen being burned in the streets? Anyone with a few functional
> > > brain cells should realize that such a system can easily cause many
> > > problems for innocent people.
> >
> > They should get guns and shoot them down! Oops, Englanders aren't allowed
> > to own guns.
> >
> > Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
>Festival
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