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In article <l67321$jfl$1@dont-email.me>, Wes Groleau
<Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:

> >> I got a chuckle out of an advert that appeared in  Byte Magazine
> >> every month for years.  Don't no what the program cost, but the ad
> >> offered to "Turn your $1000 computer into a $60 typewriter!"
> >
> > You wrote the same thing in soc.genealogy.computing on Jan 22,
> > 2008.  ;)
> 
> Obviously seeing the silly thing so many times made me remember it.
> 
> I only saw that post once (maybe twice) in the past five years, so I
> don't remember it as well.  Besides, I'm too old to be searching
> through Usenet to see whether I said something five years before.
>
> What makes _you_ remember it?

I googled the quote to try to find the advertisement itself, but the
only hit I got was your post.

> Or you still young enough to look out for us old fogies repeating
> ourselves?

Considering that I'll be experiencing* my 71st birthday in 15 days, I
think that I qualify for "old fogy" myself.

*I originally wrote "celebrating", but I'm not going to be doing that.

-- Michelle