Re: [NTLK] jolly roger

From: scotty technoir (ticknor_at_punkass.com)
Date: Wed Mar 06 2002 - 22:17:25 EST


yeah man, that's hilarious!! so i could put an "Intel Inside" decal on
there, and be the envy of everyone at school. and wouldn't that be accurate,
now that Intel owns StrongARM technology?
<http://www.intel.com/design/pca/applicationsprocessors/1111_brf.htm>

cheers!
>>scotty t

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>Subject: Re: [NTLK] jolly roger
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>
>On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, scotty technoir wrote:
>
>> messagepad. this is not out of any dislike for apple, but rather to avoid
>> confusion amongst civilians who say "oooh..it's a Mac, too bad, etc etc!"
>
>If you ever want to blow some minds, put something weird over it, like the
>decals that come with AMD Athlon CPUs. I did this as an experiment a few
>months ago: People would see the Apple logo on my MP2100 and immediately
>start the Apple jokes, call it a toy, et al... so I decided to see what
>would happen if they thought AMD manufactured it.
>
>They went bananas.
>
>They wanted to know when it was coming out; the CPU was the fastest thing
>they'd ever heard of in a PDA; they wanted to know how I became a beta
>tester (especially with Macintalk installed); et cetera, et certera....
>
><shrug>
>
>It's downright silly when you think about it. They just looked at the
>logo and not the performance.
>
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