Re: [NTLK] Mac plusses buried alive was Re: OFFTOPIC: The Cube Is

From: John Johnson (kamikazebear_at_excite.com)
Date: Mon Jul 09 2001 - 20:48:28 EDT

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On Mon, 09 Jul 2001 17:29:05 +0100, newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net wrote:

>
> A bizarre double lifeform with the appellation 'Greg & Jeanette Wayman',
> apparently of the species known as Species 5618 to the Borg Collective,
> emitted this datastream:
>
> > Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 21:30:31 -0700
> > From: Greg & Jeanette Wayman <gwayman_at_earthlink.net>
> > Subject: Re: [NTLK] OFFTOPIC: The Cube Is
>
> > In an effort to kill this monster I created, I quote from the Almighty
> > "Mac Bathroom reader"
> >
> > "Apple officially discontinued the Macintosh XL, ne'e Lisa, on April
29th,
> > 1985. and
> > the last
> > Lisa rolled off the assembly line in the Carrollton, Texas factory on
May
> > 15th, 1985.
> > Sun
> > Remarketing of Logan, Utah purchased the 5000 unsold Lisas in inventory
and
> > took
> > several thousand more used and broken units on consignment. It did
quite well
> > selling
> > the
> > Lisas after upgrading them with the latest Mac technology, but in
> > mid-September 1989,
> >
> > Apple decided to literally bury the Lisa once and for all. Under the
watchful
> > eye of
> > armed
> > security guards, 2700 Lisas that had been on consignment were interred
at the
> > Logan
> > Landfill (880 cubic yards @ $1.95 per yard.) so that Apple could
receive a tax
> > write-off."
> >
> > Now DIE you nasty thread.......We know resume to our regular
> > programming.......

Tough luck!
Now we have a marker in the fill-a-landfill-site race between IBM & Apple:
we'd better tell the both of them to get their acts together for the sake of
the planet!

>
>
> this humble carbon-based unit merely emits the following data
interrogative
> in the hope of enlightenment:
>
> didn't they also entomb a buncha macplusses?
>
> Best wishes
> ::::::APB::::::
>
> PS: threads don't die, they just get assimilated by servers...
>
>
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