From: Ian Rawlings on
On 2008-04-20, BruceMcF <agila61(a)netscape.net> wrote:

> Sales of computers to first time computer buyers in the UK in the
> 1980's is topical information?

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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From: Paul E Collins on
"OwenBot" <cheveron(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> in the same way that the French buy French cars and the Germans buy
> German pop music.

German pop music is *excellent*.

Eq.


From: OwenBot on
On Apr 21, 1:16 am, Andrew Halliwell <spi...(a)ponder.sky.com> wrote:
> Paul E Collins <find_my_real_addr...(a)cl4.org> wrote:
>
> > "OwenBot" <cheve...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> in the same way that the French buy French cars and the Germans buy
> >> German pop music.
>
> > German pop music is *excellent*.
>
> Then why is Germany the only country in the world that thinks david
> hasslehoff is a pop star?
> :)

Well put. It is time for the country that probably produced more great
composers than any other[1] to rest on its laurels. ;)

[1] http://tinyurl.com/4m3aru
From: Riccardo Rubini on
Pasi Ojala wrote:

> Asking Brits about their first home computer, yes, that result
> was expected.

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


From: Klompmeester on

"Paul E Collins" <find_my_real_address(a)CL4.org> wrote in message
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> "OwenBot" <cheveron(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> in the same way that the French buy French cars and the Germans buy
>> German pop music.
>
> German pop music is *excellent*.
>

If you're a German, it's overproduced cheese anywhere else.