Date   : Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:55:44 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: A new Element 14

me@... wrote:

>> Acorn as "that clunky computer with the red keys across the top".
>> Like in their alternate history none of the ARM range existed...

> One of them had red keys across the top. :)

Actually, I think a lot of the RISC OS range had red keys. <looks in 
box> Yup, my A3000 does. I think the utterly-crappy A310 keyboard does. 
The A5000 is shades-of-grey though.

Point was, not to be pedantic, but that "clunky" and "red keys" are what 
most people my age remember of the Beebs at school. I bet *none* of them 
ever looked underneath and thought "whoa!" (in a Keanu Reeves voice, of 
course!).


Best wishes,

Rick.


PS: As a total aside, I now have 1 megabit here at home. The engineer 
fitted the line and said it might take up to two weeks... he plugged in 
the Livebox (after muttering about me setting it up manually, ain't no 
way I'm gonna fill the eeePC's small storage with all that Orange crap 
that I don't need - MSIE? pah! Outlook? Get real!) and it started right 
away. DRRRROOOOOOOOOLLL!  So it's nearly 2am, I'm lying in bed to write 
this instead of looking for porn like any normal single guy <g> and I'm 
using WiFi through a 3-ft thick stone wall which I'm impressed by.

Anyway, I'm telling you all this because now Thunderbird will send my 
random thoughts as-written, so I wish to apologise in advance for all 
the times I screw up and send replies to people's private mailboxes 
instead of to the mailing list as intended...

-- 
Rick Murray, irregular internet access at local library.
BBC B: DNFS, 2 x 5.25" floppies, EPROM prog, Acorn TTX
E01S FileStore, A3000/A5000/RiscPC/various PCs/blahblah...