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April 1998, Week 1

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Jim Gilbert <[log in to unmask]>
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Jim Gilbert <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 3 Apr 1998 15:21:32 -0800
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So I shouldn't feel any less manly, or in any way inadequate because I'm
still running a 486 dx2 66?

I feel better already.



At 03:55 PM 4/3/98 -0700, toback2 wrote:
>Denys writes:
>
>>- On April 1, 2 days ago, your shiny new Pentium MMX laptop was rendered
>>obsolete.  The Mobile Pentium II (Deschutes class) was released.  How fi
>>tting that an entire class of expensive laptops be made obsolete on April
>>Fool's day.
>
>Pure, mindless, raging technophilia.
>
>Why should anyone care what chip their laptop computer uses?
>
>It's a guy thing, I guess. Five million years ago, our ancestors were
>sorting themselves by the size and color of their reproductive organs.
>Today, it's by the speed of their chips and the size of their hard
>drives. Some things never change.
>
>-- Bruce
>
>
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