Re: [NTLK] Outcome of Old iBook Sale...

From: Andrew Beals (bandy_at_beals.org)
Date: Wed Aug 17 2005 - 08:25:25 PDT


Because you could join the computer generation for fitty bucks, man!

On 2005-a=C5=ADg-17, at 05:49, Apostolos Koutropoulos wrote:

> What really surprises me is that there were hotlines open for =20
> several hours
> after the sale ended so that people could learn how to operate =20
> their macs
> (this from the video feed of the VA station that ran the story). If =20=

> you
> don't know how to operate a mac - why would you wait in line, get =20
> trampled
> on, get aggravated in order to get an old mac that you don't know =20
> how to
> use?
>

Fifty bucks for a reasonably modern computer that will do the =20
internet? Now that's a bargain!

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on =20
society.

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