We asked over 900 people "Which is the king of computers?"
[url]http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39188678,00.htm?r=1[/url]
It was a given really.
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We asked over 900 people "Which is the king of computers?"
[url]http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39188678,00.htm?r=1[/url]
It was a given really.
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G.
On 2008-04-20, Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> We asked over 900 people "Which is the king of computers?"[/color]
No, they didn't. They asked "What was your first home PC?"
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> [url]http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39188678,00.htm?r=1[/url]
>
> It was a given really.[/color]
Asking Brits about their first home computer, yes, that result
was expected.
-Pasi
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"That's all that faith requires. That we surrender ourselves to
the possibility of hope. For that I'm content."
-- Brother Alwyn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars"
Pasi Ojala wrote:[color=blue]
> On 2008-04-20, Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmouth@gmail.com> wrote:[color=green]
>> We asked over 900 people "Which is the king of computers?"[/color]
>
> No, they didn't. They asked "What was your first home PC?"
>[color=green]
>> [url]http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39188678,00.htm?r=1[/url]
>>
>> It was a given really.[/color]
>
> Asking Brits about their first home computer, yes, that result
> was expected.
>
> -Pasi[/color]
I though the exact same thing when I read that.
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Pete Rittwage
[url]http://rittwage.com[/url]
C64 Preservation Project
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It's about as meaningful a statistic as the one for the C64 sales in
the Guinness Book of Records. Still, it's unlike Geoff to start a
flame war! ;)
Flamewar? I was merely disseminating topical information. :-)
Talking of the Guiness Book of Records, the British Broadcasting
Corporation reports that in Wales this weekend there has been the
biggest assembly of Sir Clive Sinclair's C5 electric tricycle
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7354449.stm[/url]
It does give one a warm feeling.
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G.
On Apr 20, 11:57 am, Pasi Ojala <alb...@hopeatilhi.cs.tut.fi> wrote:[color=blue]
> No, they didn't. They asked "What was your first home PC?"[/color]
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> >[url]http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39188678,00.htm?r=1[/url]
> > It was a given really.[/color][/color]
[color=blue]
> Asking Brits about their first home computer, yes, that result
> was expected.[/color]
It would be interesting to ask the follow-up question, "if you first
home PC was the Spectrum, would you agree that your first home PC was
the King of the Home Computers".
Because there would be a sound basis for a misleading headline. As it
stands, its just laughable.
"Geoff Wearmouth" <gwearmouth@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:7ad512ac-3aaf-4743-a106-0bf763248cd1@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> We asked over 900 people "Which is the king of computers?"
>
> [url]http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39188678,00.htm?r=1[/url]
>
> It was a given really.
>[/color]
Slap a "made in the UK" sticker on anything and the brits will proclaim it
to be the best.
It never is, but that doesn't matter - if it feeds the inherent snobbery
they will want to believe it.
On Apr 20, 12:28 pm, Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmo...@gmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Flamewar? I was merely disseminating topical information. :-)[/color]
Sales of computers to first time computer buyers in the UK in the
1980's is topical information?
On Apr 20, 5:28*pm, Geoff Wearmouth <gwearmo...@gmail.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
> Talking of the Guiness Book of Records, the British Broadcasting
> Corporation reports that in Wales this weekend there has been the
> biggest assembly of Sir Clive Sinclair's C5 electric tricycle[/color]
Rats. I was in Wales this weekend. I could have gone!
On Apr 20, 10:48*pm, "Klompmeester" <whowh...@andwhy.com> wrote:
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> Slap a "made in the UK" sticker on anything and the brits will proclaim it
> to be the best.[/color]
I've never met anyone in the UK that thought British stuff was the
best. Adequate is usually the description. We buy it out of a
misplaced sense of loyalty and national pride in the same way that the
French buy French cars and the Germans buy German pop music. The
Americans, I notice, don't buy American anymore.
On 2008-04-20, BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> wrote:
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> Sales of computers to first time computer buyers in the UK in the
> 1980's is topical information?[/color]
In groups dealing with the computers of the 1980s then yes, it's
topical. "Topical" doesn't mean the latest thing in the mindless
celebrity culture that you commodore users gravitate towards...
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"OwenBot" <cheveron@gmail.com> wrote:
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> in the same way that the French buy French cars and the Germans buy
> German pop music.[/color]
German pop music is *excellent*.
Eq.
Paul E Collins <find_my_real_address@cl4.org> wrote:[color=blue]
> "OwenBot" <cheveron@gmail.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> in the same way that the French buy French cars and the Germans buy
>> German pop music.[/color]
>
> German pop music is *excellent*.[/color]
Then why is Germany the only country in the world that thinks david
hasslehoff is a pop star?
:)
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On Apr 21, 1:16*am, Andrew Halliwell <spi...@ponder.sky.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Paul E Collins <find_my_real_addr...@cl4.org> wrote:
>[color=green]
> > "OwenBot" <cheve...@gmail.com> wrote:[/color]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >> in the same way that the French buy French cars and the Germans buy
> >> German pop music.[/color][/color]
>[color=green]
> > German pop music is *excellent*.[/color]
>
> Then why is Germany the only country in the world that thinks david
> hasslehoff is a pop star?
> :)[/color]
Well put. It is time for the country that probably produced more great
composers than any other[1] to rest on its laurels. ;)
[1] [url]http://tinyurl.com/4m3aru[/url]
Pasi Ojala wrote:
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> Asking Brits about their first home computer, yes, that result
> was expected.[/color]
I wonder what's next. Wait, what about running the same survey in Moscow, so
we can finally crown the AGAT as the king of the eighties?
Riccardo
"Paul E Collins" <find_my_real_address@CL4.org> wrote in message
news:5eOdnZ9qMcNdRZbVRVnyjAA@bt.com...[color=blue]
> "OwenBot" <cheveron@gmail.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
>> in the same way that the French buy French cars and the Germans buy
>> German pop music.[/color]
>
> German pop music is *excellent*.
>[/color]
If you're a German, it's overproduced cheese anywhere else.
Geoff Wearmouth wrote:
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> Flamewar? I was merely disseminating topical information. :-)
>
> Talking of the Guiness Book of Records, the British Broadcasting
> Corporation reports that in Wales this weekend there has been the
> biggest assembly of Sir Clive Sinclair's C5 electric tricycle
>
> [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7354449.stm[/url]
>
> It does give one a warm feeling.[/color]
In the small of the back, roughly where the motor is? Could be nasty.
--
Duncan Snowden.
On Apr 21, 3:26 am, "Riccardo Rubini" <rub...@despammed.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> Pasi Ojala wrote:[color=green]
> > Asking Brits about their first home computer, yes, that result
> > was expected.[/color]
>
> I wonder what's next. Wait, what about running the same survey in Moscow, so
> we can finally crown the AGAT as the king of the eighties?
>
> Riccardo[/color]
Brazil, run it in Brazil. Finally, MSX will get the recognition it
deserves {evil laugh}
Andrew Halliwell wrote:[color=blue]
> Paul E Collins <find_my_real_address@cl4.org> wrote:[color=green]
>> "OwenBot" <cheveron@gmail.com> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> in the same way that the French buy French cars and the Germans buy
>>> German pop music.[/color]
>> German pop music is *excellent*.[/color]
>
> Then why is Germany the only country in the world that thinks david
> hasslehoff is a pop star?[/color]
The people who think this correspond to those in the U.S. who listen
exclusively to phony "Country" Music. Every nation has its share of
those, but anybody over here with a bit of taste hates Hasselhoff as a
Musician (and as an actor I might say).
Same goes for "Modern Talking" (aaaarrrrgggghhhh), and most of the
"successful exports" such as The Scorpions. Urgh. The real all-time top
acts over here are Die Toten Hosen, Die Ärzte, and Herbert Grönemeyer,
all eminently listenable. For some decent newer stuff check out Wir Sind
Helden. For raw musical power (though questionable lyrics) try the old
Ton Steine Scherben stuff, and for a taste of GDR "East Rock", try "City".
Stonk!
--
Linards Ticmanis
Klompmeester wrote on 21. April 2008:[color=blue]
>
> "Paul E Collins" <find_my_real_address@CL4.org> wrote in message
> news:5eOdnZ9qMcNdRZbVRVnyjAA@bt.com...[color=green]
>> "OwenBot" <cheveron@gmail.com> wrote:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> in the same way that the French buy French cars and the Germans buy
>>> German pop music.[/color]
>>
>> German pop music is *excellent*.
>>[/color]
>
> If you're a German, it's overproduced cheese anywhere else. [/color]
Successful cheese...
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Andreas
My Commodore 64 classic game music page at
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