Computer Museum of America on Tuesday night's PBS NOVA (fwd)

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Thu Feb 7 13:41:52 2002

>
> Around here, Basic Cable (40 channels, no HBO or nothing) costs $62.00 a
> month. $10 more for each pay channel you want (HBO, Cinimax, Stars,
> Encore, TMC, or Showtime).

$62 a month is a ripoff price. Unless you meant Digital Cable.

>
> Satallite TV (Dish Network) gives me 200+ channels, PLUS all the pay
> channels (5 HBO, 3 Cinimax, tons of others... roughly 40 pay channels in
> all), PLUS country wide "superstations" (WB, UPN, so I can watch
> Smallville 3 times every tuesday... cause Enterprise sucks so I have to
> have SOME show to be addicted to) PLUS local broadcast networks (no
> biggie, I can put an arial up for those), PLUS something like 200 music
> channels (those things that play a screen saver while playing music)

Enterprise is surprisingly good. I'm amazed they had the guts to
incorporate 1960's-ish 'camp' humor at times. And the two episodes
with the Andorians have been excellent. So there.

I dont suppose we can return to discussing computers? Anyone wanna buy a
Prime computer? I was contacted by a reseller i've dealt with in the
past, to see if i had any interest in it.

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Thu Feb 07 2002 - 13:41:52 GMT