> An IBM 5362 in England. The address makes no sense to me: I
> think this is an estate sale company in four locations(?)
> North Leaze Farm, North Cadbury, Yeovil, Somerset. Take your
> pick. Sorry, my geography of the UK does not enable me to
> figure out where this is exactly. Or maybe it IS the address
> (quite odd by US standards at least). Or maybe it doesn't
> make sense anyway.
Makes perfect sense. I'll parse it for you in case you want to
fly over and take it back in your hand-luggage:
It's a place called "North Leaze Farm",
so it's big enough that "142 Widget Road" would be inappropriate.
It's in a village called "North Cadbury" (or, since it's a farm,
it's probably near to this village).
There are possibly hundreds of places called "North Cadbury" so
to give you a hint you get the name of a big place that's probably
reasonably near (for some suitable definition of "near"). In this
case that's "Yeovil" - a place that is of sufficient size that
most UK inhabitants have a clue about which corner of the country
it's hidden in.
Finally you get the county: "Somerset". That's really there to
catch the retards who forgot where Yeovil might be. If you
don't know where Somerset is, you don't deserve any sort of
IBM (even a PC :-)).
I presume that this thing is in storage but just in case someone
wants to go and fetch it here is roughly where it lives:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=361862&y=129008&z=0&sv=BA22+7BD&
st=2&pc=BA22+7BD&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini_at_iee.org
Received on Wed Nov 26 2003 - 15:07:23 GMT