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Re: MISC personal computers



----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Grimes <ogrimes@bellatlantic.net>
To: MISC list <MISC@pisa.rockefeller.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 1999 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: MISC personal computers


>Lets design a laptop! :)
>
>Features:
>
>Misc processor
>Rugged design
>Waterproof
>8 gig drive...
>64 megs of ram.
>Sub-Etha tranciever... (see the recient quantum teleportation breakthroug
from
>IBM)
>The words "Don't Panic" printed in large red friendly letters on the back
of the
>screen...

Don't forget the "slightly cheaper" part though.

>A copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the galixy burned into ROM... =P

I don't think this would work too well.  Remember, the Hitchhiker's Guide,
if printed on paper, was large enough to fill several inconveniently large
buildings.  We don't have ROM chips that big. :)

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