25 Mar
2010
25 Mar
'10
12:16 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Giliberti" <starbase89 at gmail.com>
The machine in the fake advert looks as though it could have existed at one
point
Yep. It looks like an Oki if800. It was also sold under the BMC and Sumicom
brands. They probably photoshopped an old ad.
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:
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