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Xref: sserve alt.folklore.computers:74501 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5544 comp.os.linux.misc:36065 comp.os.os2.advocacy:81368 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!purdue!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!eff!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!swiss.ans.net!potogold.rmii.com!rainbow!afelson From: afelson@rmii.com (Adam Felson) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Date: 22 Feb 1995 19:40:20 GMT Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3ig3v4$t5f@potogold.rmii.com> References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fv5jm$ie6@plato.simons-rock.edu> <Pine.SOL.3.91.950216133112.16710E-100000@ion1> <D4EL3q.G2M@csc.liv.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: rainbow.rmii.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] A little offtopic? :-) ( from linux => lawn mowers ) A.G. Ponitz (u4agp@csc.liv.ac.uk) wrote: : Benjamin J. Lumen (blumen@ion1) wrote: : > On 12 Feb 1995, Kai Henningsen wrote: : > Uhh, I don't think you would have to worry about the Trabant : > lawn mower motor. It probably wouldn't go very fast. From what : > I have last heard from a AirForce MSGT they are all sitting : > in a field in east germany decomposing, although Lawn Boy could : > probably go over there and pick up every motor for around $50 for the whole : I won't sell mine for $50. Never... Maybe for $200 :) : > lot and thus produce cheap lawn movers over here. Someone else : > could go get the bodies and return them to their original function as : > pressed fiber board flattening them out (just add water and weights at the : > appropriate places), drill holes all over them and cut them to size : > you could then hang them in your garrage and then hang your tools on : > them and have a very orderly work shop. YOu see those russian : > engineers were really worried about the question of what can we do with : > them after they break (in other words after the 90 day warranty). : Oh, they don't. An average Trabant survives 15 or 20 years : of heavy duty (just have a look on East German roads *grin*), : : > Ben : Well, you can use the `roof` as a slide... quite fast :) : Great fun in winter... : Andre' :