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[mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune)]

Gary Sutton (cvotter@prairienet.org) wrote:
> Actually, I refer to my IIGS by her name, Karma.  I thought that would 
> make her sound a bit more personalized than just 'The IIGS'.  Anyone else 
> name their systems?  :)

Gus.  :)  It kinda made me feel good when I found out the GS emulator for 
PowerMacs is called Gus, too.  I've also used Gus as my bbs handle for 
years, and used it for awhile for Kali net-gaming, but found out there 
are too many other Gus's out there playing games, so I had to change it.

> Karma just recently got mistaken for a Mac.  A few weeks ago, we were 

Just recently?  hehehe People refer to mine as a mac almost everyday.  My 
hand is getting sore from slapping them. 

> IIGS, they said, 'Oh.  You have a Mac?'  We then went into a long 
> dissertation about what a GS was and was not.  Finally, after we thought 
> they got it into their 300bps brains that there is such a thing as Apple 
> II, some other employee came in and he was promptly told that we have a 
> Mac.  All we could do then was leave in disgust.  What happened to the 
> days when people in the computer industry were required to have some 
> degree of intelligence?

heheh they never do, and they never will.  Awhile ago, I tried to get a 
job at CompUSA, and to tell you the truth, I had no competition.  The 
people I was up against for the job didn't know anything, yet one of them 
got hired.  When I asked why I wasn't picked, the manager said "You know 
too much.  We don't want people with facts, we want to sell."  Boy that 
boosted my confidence.

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