Re: Another Reason the Apple I was Priced at $666.66

[buggie@ben14.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

There is a highway going north from Gallup NM called, "HIGHWAY 666" and
many people here are spooked by those numbers.  This highway has more
fatalities than any other highway of its type in the state.

Steve Buggie			buggie@unm.edu








Bob G (hhvtcr2bweo0hmydookxaorhsc3jl@lpwa.com) wrote:
: Rubywand wrote:
: > [...]
: > > Also, isn't a veiled reference to Satan a *good thing* in a lot of hacker
: > > circles?
: >  ....
: > 
: >      You mean something like ....
: > 
: >            ~^~^~ T h e   A p p l e   C o m p u t e r ~^~^~
: > 
: >                            $ 6 6 6
: > 
: >                    for a Devil of a machine!
: > 
: >      Could have worked; but, you may have lost some of the home edu and Sunday School
: > buyers. [...]

: My experience with Apples started in 1982, and I have to say that I
: don't recall any of the "punk hacker" stuff being prevalent then.
: Certainly there were few satanic references at the time. Most of that
: seems to have kicked in later, especially around the time Gibson's
: Neuromancer took off. Just my recollection however - YMMV.

: I did read an article in Wired last year about Woz's thing for repeating
: digits. According to the article, he grabbed 888-888-8888 as his phone
: number when that prefix became available, but had to give it up when too
: many babies punching the same number repeatedly wound up calling.

: It was a good article, and sure made me misty-eyed for the glory days of
: the ][. I have no idea how factual it was though.

: - Bob

: - Bob