27 Aug
2004
27 Aug
'04
7:48 a.m.
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
I assume that you mean cola,...
Be sure that you stick with Coca-Cola, NOT PEPSI!
Pepsi has some past history with computers and keyboards:
I have always reassured my beginning students that nothing
that they accidentally enter through the keyboard of their
computers would actually DAMAGE the computer. One wiseguy
said, "I entered a Pepsi."
After Three Mile Island, Saturday Night Live postulated that
it was caused by "The Pepsi Syndrome", the result of spilling
a Pepsi into a computer keyboard.
Shortly after that, the U.S.A. and USSR (CCCP) normalized
diplomatic relations enough to import vodka and export Pepsi
to Russia. That was followed almost immediately by Chernobyl.
Surely that could not be coincidence!
Until their recent bailout, Apple computers ride into failure
was with a former Pepsi exedcutive at the helm.
Coincidence?
OK, all this
talk about best and worst, what features would you have on your
dream keyboard?
Mine would have a Jack key and a Coke key. If you pressed them
together
you got a Jack & Coke. If you wanted to go for the kill you'd just hit
the Jack key several times. The next morning you'd press the Coke key.