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Macintosh 30th Anniversary

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  Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-10 09:13 +1300
    Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-01-11 18:37 +0000
      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-12 10:16 +1300
      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-11 21:47 +0000
        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-11 14:11 -0800
      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-11 22:01 +0000
      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-11 17:24 -0700
        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Jim Jaeger <jimjaeger@example.com> - 2014-01-11 16:38 -0800
          Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-12 09:19 +0000
            Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 08:07 -0800
              Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-12 18:03 +0000
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 10:25 -0800
                  Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-12 18:33 +0000
                    Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 10:46 -0800
                    Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-12 12:53 -0700
                      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-13 07:42 +1100
                        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-01-12 15:36 -0800
                          Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-13 11:09 +1100
                            Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-01-15 10:39 -0800
                              Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-16 07:11 +1100
                    Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-13 07:34 +1100
                    Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-01-12 15:33 -0800
                      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-13 10:59 +1100
                        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2014-01-12 23:37 -0800
                          Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-13 09:42 +0000
                          Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-13 20:54 +1100
                  Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-13 09:02 +1300
                    Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 12:24 -0800
                      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-12 15:38 -0600
                      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-12 21:59 +0000
                      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-13 09:02 +1100
                      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-13 13:14 +1300
                        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 16:44 -0800
                          Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-13 17:08 +1300
                            Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-12 23:31 -0500
                              Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-13 18:55 +1300
                                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-14 09:16 +1300
                        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-01-13 18:14 +0000
                          Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-13 18:37 -0500
                            Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-14 13:13 +1300
                            Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-13 16:26 -0800
                              Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-14 13:49 +1300
                    Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-12 22:15 +0000
                      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-01-12 15:39 -0800
                        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-13 13:28 +1300
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-01-12 15:31 -0800
                  Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-12 23:33 +0000
                  Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-12 18:15 -0700
                    Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 17:19 -0800
              Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-01-13 07:25 +1100
            Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-12 09:18 -0700
              Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2014-01-12 11:25 -0600
                Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 10:40 -0800
                  Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-12 23:26 +0000
                    Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 16:28 -0800
                      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-12 18:14 -0700
                        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 17:29 -0800
                        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary "D.F. Manno" <dfmanno@mail.com> - 2014-01-16 17:51 -0500
                          Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-16 23:11 +0000
                            Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2014-01-24 22:33 -0600
                      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-13 17:13 +1300
                        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-01-12 20:52 -0800
                          Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-13 18:57 +1300
        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-01-11 19:50 -0500
          Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-11 18:02 -0700
          Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-12 15:52 +1300
          Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-01-11 20:56 -0600
      Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-01-11 20:55 -0600
        Re: Macintosh 30th Anniversary Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2014-01-12 17:49 +1300

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#3379

FromYour Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Date2014-01-13 17:13 +1300
Message-ID<130120141713196231%YourName@YourISP.com>
In reply to#3372
In article <2014011216284035775-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
> On 2014-01-12 23:26:50 +0000, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> said:
> > In article <2014011210404613497-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
> > Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
> >> On 2014-01-12 17:25:03 +0000, George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> said:
> >> > > > > On 1/12/14 10:18 AM, in article 
> >> 120120140918299045%michelle@michelle.org,
> >> > "Michelle Steiner" <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> >> > >> In article <120120140919221781%timstreater@greenbee.net>, Tim Streater
> >> >> <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> >> >> >>> In article
> >> >>> <jimjaeger-1DF813.16385911012014@news.eternal-september.org>, Jim
> >> >>> Jaeger <jimjaeger@example.com> wrote:
> >> >>>> >>>> 
> >> >>>> >>>> My birthdate is closer to the Civil War than to today.
> >> >>>> >>>> You kids get off my lawn.
> >> >>> >>>
> >> >>> >>> The Civil War was in the 1640s. Are you at least 180 years old?
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I think that he was joking.
> >> > > 
> >> > > The OP?
> >> > > He very could have been serious: 1939 was 75 years ago. The Civil war
> >> > > ended 149 years ago.
> >> 
> >> Yup! my 90 year old, Mac using father was born in 1923. The US Civil 
> >> war ended in 1865, 58 years earlier.
> > 
> > Oddly enough one of my grandfathers would have been old enough, just,
> > to have fought in the American Civil War.
> 
> ...and one of my Great-Grandfathers actually fought in the Civil War, 
> or for the benefit of "furners", "The War Between the States". As a 
> teenager he was thrust into the fight at the Battle of Chickamauga when 
> the War reached the outskirts of LaFayette, GA., where he, my 
> grandfather and father were born.

And one of my
great-great-great-great-great-...-great-great-great-grandmothers was
the first of the species to come down out of the trees ... she was also
your early relative, so we're cousins.   ;-)

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#3381

FromSavageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com>
Date2014-01-12 20:52 -0800
Message-ID<2014011220522652399-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>
In reply to#3379
On 2014-01-13 04:13:19 +0000, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> said:

> In article <2014011216284035775-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
> Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
>> On 2014-01-12 23:26:50 +0000, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> said:
>>> In article <2014011210404613497-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
>>> Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
>>>> On 2014-01-12 17:25:03 +0000, George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> said:
>>>>>>>> On 1/12/14 10:18 AM, in article
>>>> 120120140918299045%michelle@michelle.org,
>>>>> "Michelle Steiner" <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> In article <120120140919221781%timstreater@greenbee.net>, Tim Streater
>>>>>> <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> In article
>>>>>>> <jimjaeger-1DF813.16385911012014@news.eternal-september.org>, Jim
>>>>>>> Jaeger <jimjaeger@example.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> My birthdate is closer to the Civil War than to today.
>>>>>>>>>>>> You kids get off my lawn.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> The Civil War was in the 1640s. Are you at least 180 years old?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I think that he was joking.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The OP?
>>>>>> He very could have been serious: 1939 was 75 years ago. The Civil war
>>>>>> ended 149 years ago.
>>>> 
>>>> Yup! my 90 year old, Mac using father was born in 1923. The US Civil
>>>> war ended in 1865, 58 years earlier.
>>> 
>>> Oddly enough one of my grandfathers would have been old enough, just,
>>> to have fought in the American Civil War.
>> 
>> ...and one of my Great-Grandfathers actually fought in the Civil War,
>> or for the benefit of "furners", "The War Between the States". As a
>> teenager he was thrust into the fight at the Battle of Chickamauga when
>> the War reached the outskirts of LaFayette, GA., where he, my
>> grandfather and father were born.
> 
> And one of my
> great-great-great-great-great-...-great-great-great-grandmothers was
> the first of the species to come down out of the trees ... she was also
> your early relative, so we're cousins.   ;-)

Aah! Our cousin from Taung, good old Australopithecus africanus. I knew 
her well.

-- 
Regards,

Savageduck

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#3383

FromYour Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Date2014-01-13 18:57 +1300
Message-ID<130120141857354654%YourName@YourISP.com>
In reply to#3381
In article <2014011220522652399-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
> On 2014-01-13 04:13:19 +0000, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> said:
> > In article <2014011216284035775-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom>,
> > Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote:
> >> On 2014-01-12 23:26:50 +0000, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> said:
> >>>
> >>> Oddly enough one of my grandfathers would have been old enough, just,
> >>> to have fought in the American Civil War.
> >> 
> >> ...and one of my Great-Grandfathers actually fought in the Civil War,
> >> or for the benefit of "furners", "The War Between the States". As a
> >> teenager he was thrust into the fight at the Battle of Chickamauga when
> >> the War reached the outskirts of LaFayette, GA., where he, my
> >> grandfather and father were born.
> > 
> > And one of my
> > great-great-great-great-great-...-great-great-great-grandmothers was
> > the first of the species to come down out of the trees ... she was also
> > your early relative, so we're cousins.   ;-)
> 
> Aah! Our cousin from Taung, good old Australopithecus africanus. I knew 
> her well.

"*Austral*opithecus" ... see, there's those annoying Australians trying
to claim a celebrity as their own again.  ;-)

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#3337

FromJF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca>
Date2014-01-11 19:50 -0500
Message-ID<52d1e6db$0$47890$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f@news.astraweb.com>
In reply to#3335
On 14-01-11 19:24, Michelle Steiner wrote:

> My birthdate is closer to the attack on Pearl Harbor than it is to the
> release of Star Trek, let alone Star Wars.

I live closer to the North Pole than to the Equator :-(

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#3338

FromMichelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org>
Date2014-01-11 18:02 -0700
Message-ID<110120141802080051%michelle@michelle.org>
In reply to#3337
In article <52d1e6db$0$47890$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f@news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> > My birthdate is closer to the attack on Pearl Harbor than it is to the
> > release of Star Trek, let alone Star Wars.
> 
> I live closer to the North Pole than to the Equator :-(

I live closer to the Equator than you do.  I also live closer to the
South Pole than you do.

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#3339

FromYour Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Date2014-01-12 15:52 +1300
Message-ID<120120141552254346%YourName@YourISP.com>
In reply to#3337
In article <52d1e6db$0$47890$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f@news.astraweb.com>, JF
Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 14-01-11 19:24, Michelle Steiner wrote:
> 
> > My birthdate is closer to the attack on Pearl Harbor than it is to the
> > release of Star Trek, let alone Star Wars.
> 
> I live closer to the North Pole than to the Equator :-(

Don't worry. In a few years Climate Change will mean the whole planet
is the "equator" (although many people will be living underwater).  
;-)

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#3341

Fromerilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid>
Date2014-01-11 20:56 -0600
Message-ID<drache-D19742.20561011012014@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#3337
In article <52d1e6db$0$47890$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f@news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:

> On 14-01-11 19:24, Michelle Steiner wrote:
> 
> > My birthdate is closer to the attack on Pearl Harbor than it is to the
> > release of Star Trek, let alone Star Wars.
> 
> I live closer to the North Pole than to the Equator :-(

I live almost exactly halfway between them.

-- 
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist

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#3340

Fromerilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid>
Date2014-01-11 20:55 -0600
Message-ID<drache-B72574.20553511012014@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#3330
In article <las31b$sho$1@dont-email.me>, me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) 
wrote:

> In comp.sys.mac.system Your Name <YourName@yourisp.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 30 years?! Geez, now I feel even older!  :-)
> 
> This will make you feel *really* old. Remember the original Star Wars 
> movie? Its release date was closer in time to the attack on Pearl Harbor 
> than to today.

I remember both.  I AM old 8-)

-- 
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist

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#3342

FromYour Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Date2014-01-12 17:49 +1300
Message-ID<120120141749138999%YourName@YourISP.com>
In reply to#3340
In article <drache-B72574.20553511012014@news.eternal-september.org>,
erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote:

> In article <las31b$sho$1@dont-email.me>, me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) 
> wrote:
> 
> > In comp.sys.mac.system Your Name <YourName@yourisp.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > 30 years?! Geez, now I feel even older!  :-)
> > 
> > This will make you feel *really* old. Remember the original Star Wars 
> > movie? Its release date was closer in time to the attack on Pearl Harbor 
> > than to today.
> 
> I remember both.  I AM old 8-)

For those "youngies" who also want to feel old, the iPhone is seven
years old.  :-)

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