Re: The ten SEXIEST computers of ALL TIME • The Register

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013, Jason McBrien wrote: That's just a decorative PICTURE of a keyboard. Like "serving suggestion" on a box of cereal. It also provides some protection against scraping up the bottom of the door that it is used with. If you are going to do anything that involves input, then you would need to connect an actual keyboard. I once sold a ragged old disk pack at a computer swap. One that had seen a lot of use being passed around a classroom. My assistant stuck a Timex between the platters, and changed the sign to read "Mass storage for Sinclairs. Holds four." I don't know from "sexiest", but it was the funniest computer of its time. Perhaps one of the early Sonys, with their Italian case design? Or the original NeXt? Too bad that they didn't go through with shaping it like a human head. or foot. N* Horizon and Darth Vader's lunchbox were good one - people thought that they were homemade. I suppose that you would need to include something flat, with rounded corners, . . . -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com