[geeks] Surprised

dave at cca.org dave at cca.org
Fri Apr 19 20:03:32 CDT 2002


wa2egp at att.net writes:

>Looks nice though.  Tempting.
>Then today I was in BJ's (great name huh?), 
>a "warehouse" type store and got into a conversation 
>with someone looking at the laptops. He asked me what I 
>used.  Well, a 333 MHz Ultra 10 and a Sparc 20 with Ross 
>dual 125 MHz was quite a ways beyond his understanding 
>as was UNIX.  He wandered away muttering about "idiots 
>using less than 1 GHz".  Can't win them all....  ;->

I enjoy explaining to people why I would *never* trade 
my 25 Mhz POWER RS/6000 for their Ghz PC...

------ David Fischer ------- dave at cca.org ------- http://www.cca.org ------
-------- "I prefer the ridiculous to the sublime." - James Chance ---------



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