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   Scott Dorsey to ldo@nz.invalid   
   Re: Retro-Inspired Cases Are To PCs What   
   24 Sep 25 17:03:00   
   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=   wrote:   
   >   
   >Does anybody think of them as the personification of dullness? Like   
   >the Morris Minor was to cars? (My mother had one of those when I were   
   >a lad -- an old, second-hand one with a 945cc engine and the recessed   
   >headlamps, when she was learning to drive.)   
      
   I want computers to be dull!  And much of the time I want cars to be   
   dull as well.  I have had too many moments of terror when they have   
   become exciting.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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