Hummer / Asteroids TV commercial

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Mon Nov 3 15:51:31 2003

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Jason McBrien wrote:

> support it's price (there really isn't an equivalent vehicle, though Land
> Rovers and highly customized Wranglers come close) Some guy/gal who buys one
> just to drive around town is no more or less rediculous than someone running
> a VAX 6000 to read their E-mail (anyone? :) People drive Hummers 'cause they
I have both a Wrangler 4L Custom *and* a bunch of VAXen handling my
email. Shitty detail is, that they're not even close to being on
the same continent. But we're working on fixin' that :)

> reasons, it's cool to run a web server on a peice of hardware that cost
> $300,000.00 10 years ago in your basement. Cost effective? No.
> Environmentally friendly? No. Fun? You wouldn't be reading this list if it
> wasn't.
You know what the wierd thing is? Once people get over that ".. but er,
what about the performance of that stuff" issue, and see how much fun
it is.. they can soon be caught scrounging the various online markets
for such machinery... :)

> Drive happy!
.. and not too fast!

--fred (addicted to his Passat (NL) and Malibu (US))
Received on Mon Nov 03 2003 - 15:51:31 GMT