Re: Happy B-Day to my IIGS!!!

[sknkwrks@sonny-boy.cs.unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)]

In article <CC3npI.G6o@news.cso.uiuc.edu> bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
><FDMWINK@UCF1VM.BITNET> writes:
>>In article <1993Aug18.030402.29547@martha.utcc.utk.edu>, sadasiva@utkvx.utk.edu
>>(Sadasivam, Krishna Madur) says:
>>>
>>>Well, my IIGS turned 7 years old two daago, and I'm really proud of it!
>>>Long live the Apple II!!
>
>>That's 150 years old in dog years.  Time to enter the 20th Century?
>
>  What are you doing back, and is there any particular reason you're
>flaming away? Ego problems, perhaps? Lack of self-respect?

Besides, the multiplier for dog years is 7, not 21.43. :-)

In any case, what is it that FDMWINK@UCF1VM.BITNET (no real name
given--could this mean something?) has done in the past here?  Is he a
Mac-head out to stir up sh*t in the II newsgroups?

>  My IIGS runs something that looks, feels, and tastes a whole lot like
>UNIX.  Perhaps _you're_ the one that's not in the 20th century.

I've been thinking a little bit of trying GNO...I thought I'd try
Linux on my clone, but maybe I'll put OS/2 on my clone and GNO on my
GS instad.

[shifting back to the original subject]

I don't know how I'd figure the age of my machine.  It was originally
purchased in July 1985 as a IIe, but was upgraded to a IIGS last
December.  What does that make it--eight _years_ old or eight _months_
old? :-)

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