Am 27 Aug 2004 12:48 meinte Fred Cisin:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> > > OK, all this talk about best and worst, what features would you have on your
> > > dream keyboard?
> > Mine would have a Jack key and a Coke key. If you pressed them together
> > you got a Jack & Coke. If you wanted to go for the kill you'd just hit
> > the Jack key several times. The next morning you'd press the Coke key.
> I assume that you mean cola,...
*G*
> Be sure that you stick with Coca-Cola, NOT PEPSI!
> Pepsi has some past history with computers and keyboards:
> I have always reassured my beginning students that nothing
> that they accidentally enter through the keyboard of their
> computers would actually DAMAGE the computer. One wiseguy
> said, "I entered a Pepsi."
> After Three Mile Island, Saturday Night Live postulated that
> it was caused by "The Pepsi Syndrome", the result of spilling
> a Pepsi into a computer keyboard.
> Shortly after that, the U.S.A. and USSR (CCCP) normalized
You mean SSSR - you're still using Latin letters :)
> diplomatic relations enough to import vodka and export Pepsi
> to Russia. That was followed almost immediately by Chernobyl.
> Surely that could not be coincidence
> Until their recent bailout, Apple computers ride into failure
> was with a former Pepsi exedcutive at the helm.
> Coincidence?
I beg to differ here, as much as I dislike Pepsi, the Pepsi
guy brought the Newton to life, and that's still the damn best
PDA ever. And wasn't it re recent 'saviour' of Apple who put
it on the wrong track in the first place?
Well, anyway, I agree, Pepsi is evil!
Gruss
H.
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Received on Mon Aug 30 2004 - 12:45:45 BST