They seem to have a decent budget for props/photoshop
work.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Curt @ Atari Museum"
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Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: Laugh, it's funny
If it is a joke, it was very convincing...
certainly had me going, the
machine is pretty cool looking though. Little early for April
Fools, isn't it?
Joe Giliberti wrote:
> The machine in the fake advert looks as though it could have existed
> at one
> point
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Marcin Wichary <mwichary at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>> For those unfamiliar with The Onion's style of humour, this is a
>> joke. :)
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Curt @ Atari Museum
>> <curt at atarimuseum.com>wrote:
>>
>>
>>> What's not so funny is, the article could've mentioned a telco# or
>>> (looks
>>> like these guys don't have one - a website) --- If they are
>>> hurting for
>>>
>> $$$
>>
>>> I'm sure enough of us calling to see if they have any of their X-117C
>>> computers or parts still lying around, we'd all help buy those up and
>>>
>> those
>>
>>> guys would make a few bucks, I for one think that is a damned cool
>>>
>> looking
>>
>>> computer, I wonder if it was a CP/M box... I can't find ANY
>>> reference or
>>>
>> a
>>
>>> Xalaga computer anywhere, and never heard of one until today. Judging
>>> from that alone, looks like these guys biggest problem is they didn't
>>>
>> know
>>
>>> how to market themselves very well.
>>>
>>>
>>> Curt
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Evan Koblentz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>
http://www.theonion.com/articles/computer-company-started-in-garage-30-year…
>>
>>
>>>>
>
>