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echo: nthelp
to: Ellen K.
from: Adam Flinton
date: 2004-10-13 11:56:16
subject: Re: XP Pro, XP Home, Now XP Dumb?

From: Adam Flinton 

Ellen K. wrote:

> I see they inherited your sense of humor.   :)
>
> On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 22:09:06 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote in
> message :
>
>
>>"Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
>>news:opse86vwzg2hvhrx{at}news.barkto.com...
>>
>>
>>>The other day I was talking to some youngsters in the bizz and
told them I
>>>got my first emailaddress in 1987 (the CIS one - got it from
PCMagnet) and
>>>that I still got it. They looked at me if I were old (turned 47
today) and
>>>asked in all seriousness 'Is email *that* old'?
>>
>>I'm 46 and my kids once asked me when I first used a computer, I told them I
>>was in a computer learning group when I was 12 and they didn't know what to
say
>>till one of them muttered "how do you get 1's and 0's banging rocks
>>together?"..
>>
>>So I grabbed their heads and said "let me demonstrate". 
>>
>>Geo. (btw, happy birthday old man)
>>
>
>
Rock = 1
No rock = 0



Let's 1 

Adam

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