19 Jan
2005
19 Jan
'05
1:19 p.m.
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Tore S Bekkedal wrote:
On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 13:59 -0800, Cameron Kaiser
wrote:
I feel that this should have been brought to my attention previously.
After so much work with the PDP-7 based solely on the hope that once I
got the CPU stepping through instructions, attractive women would flock
to both the computer and me...
You sure ruined this teenager's day.
Hey, as long as you got an 8" floppy disk then all options are open.
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That's tame compared to some of the marketing literature and
advertisements I've seen from the 1960s and 1970s. The basic message
could have been interpreted as, "this gorgeous woman loves this computer,
and so by extension she will love you too if you buy it", or, "woman make
good computer ornaments".
You're kidding! That isn't true?