Re: Early apple employees Dick and Cliff Huston selling off collection

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

D Finnigan wrote:
> Toinet wrote:
>
> > On 23 mar, 21:11, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
> >
> > > Toinet wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 23 mar, 20:33, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Toinet wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Part of the items were sold yesterday, let's say this morning for
> > > > > > me.
> > > > > > I won the ProDOS source code listing. And the drive I was bidding on
> > > > > > at $3500 ended at $5300 *sigh*
> > >
> > > > > Good job. :-) This is the part where we mob you for Xerox copies. :-P
> > >
> > > > "mob" ???? I miss the meaning, sorry. mobilize?
> > >
> > > No. It means when a crowd of angry people gather around someone.
> >
> > To do what? Or why are they angry? They are angry and want to kill the
> > guy because he gave copies? Or they demonstrate? Please forgive my
> > lack of understanding on that one, I have to admit I am quite lost
> > despite your tries to explain it to me.
>
>
> In this case, I was using it as a joke, so no one is actually mad. However,
> the joke would be that we are mad at you for having won the copies of the
> ProDOS source, so we have come to mob you and take them.

That's funny, I thought that it meant a bunch of people would
start pestering him for copies...

-michael

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