Re: IIc anniversary noted on CNN

["Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca>]

"Exegete" <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com> wrote in message
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> Charles Richmond wrote:
> > "GSGeek
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> >>Really?  CNN never heard of the Tandy Model 100 or even the Osborne
> >>'portable' computer.  The Model 100 was a battery-operated Z80 laptop
(but
> >>no disk drive of any kind) with simple text editor and telecom software
and
> >>was introduced well before the //c which isn't a true laptop.  I have
never
> >>trusted CNN for accuracy: a similar message said that Columbia shuttle
was
> >>flying 8 times the speed of LIGHT when it disintegrated.  Do they ever
check
> >>what they tell?
> >>
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> > Them is morons over there at CNN... They probably also don't know
> > the difference between multiple sclerosis and muscular distrophy.
> > I once heard a newscaster say that a stun gun put out 10,000 AMPS
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> That would be one cool "stun" gun!

Yeah - stunned so hard you never wake up again!

Tim