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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:16:12 -0600
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
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From: Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
Subject: Re: CM> Microprocessors and Busicom
In-Reply-To: <199702111748.LAA11674@web.nmti.com> from "Don Hyde" at Feb 10,
97 06:09:27 pm
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>I remember it well because the treasurer of the company where I worked bought one for something like $350, and when he was proudly showing it off I told him "I'll wait for the LCD version. Within a year I'll buy one where you don't have to push a button and I'll pay less than $50." It was more like 6 months later when I bought my first digital watch. For some reason he didn't act very impressed when I showed it to him...
And as a result hardly anyone born after 1970 really understands all the digital watch jokes in The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy.
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
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From: Peter da Silva <peter@baileynm.com>
Subject: Re: CM> Microprocessors and Busicom
In-Reply-To: <199702111748.LAA11674@web.nmti.com> from "Don Hyde" at Feb 10,
97 06:09:27 pm
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
>I remember it well because the treasurer of the company where I worked bought one for something like $350, and when he was proudly showing it off I told him "I'll wait for the LCD version. Within a year I'll buy one where you don't have to push a button and I'll pay less than $50." It was more like 6 months later when I bought my first digital watch. For some reason he didn't act very impressed when I showed it to him...
And as a result hardly anyone born after 1970 really understands all the digital watch jokes in The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy.
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