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Xref: sserve alt.folklore.computers:73747 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5481 comp.os.linux.misc:35657 comp.os.os2.advocacy:80220 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!insosf1.infonet.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!hookup!swrinde!pipex!uknet!liv!lucs!u4agp From: u4agp@csc.liv.ac.uk (A.G. Ponitz) Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Sender: news@csc.liv.ac.uk (News Eater) Message-ID: <D4EL3q.G2M@csc.liv.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 13:21:26 GMT Lines: 32 References: <950116203411@lambada> <3fv5jm$ie6@plato.simons-rock.edu> <Pine.SOL.3.91.950216133112.16710E-100000@ion1> Nntp-Posting-Host: u4agp@elbe.csc.liv.ac.uk Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Followup-To: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy Benjamin J. Lumen (blumen@ion1) wrote: > On 12 Feb 1995, Kai Henningsen wrote: > Uhh, I don't think you would have to worry about the Trabant > lawn mower motor. It probably wouldn't go very fast. From what > I have last heard from a AirForce MSGT they are all sitting > in a field in east germany decomposing, although Lawn Boy could > probably go over there and pick up every motor for around $50 for the whole I won't sell mine for $50. Never... Maybe for $200 :) > lot and thus produce cheap lawn movers over here. Someone else > could go get the bodies and return them to their original function as > pressed fiber board flattening them out (just add water and weights at the > appropriate places), drill holes all over them and cut them to size > you could then hang them in your garrage and then hang your tools on > them and have a very orderly work shop. YOu see those russian > engineers were really worried about the question of what can we do with > them after they break (in other words after the 90 day warranty). Oh, they don't. An average Trabant survives 15 or 20 years of heavy duty (just have a look on East German roads *grin*), > Ben Well, you can use the `roof` as a slide... quite fast :) Great fun in winter... Andre'