Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!looking!funny-request Message-id: Date: Tue, 14 May 91 6:30:3 EDT Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University From: albert@das.harvard.edu (David Albert) Subject: FOR SALE: IBM PC, DRASTICALLY REDUCED FROM PURCHASE PRICE!!!! Keywords: true, chuckle, computer Approved: funny@looking.on.ca I HAVE AN IBM-PC COMPUTER FOR SALE!!! AT A PRICE MUCH LOWER THAN WHAT I PAID FOR IT!!! HERE'S A SUMMARY: GENUINE IBM-PC, INCLUDES: MEMORY -- 256K OPTION!! TWO 360K DISK DRIVES!! SERIAL AND PARALLEL PORTS!! CASSETTE TAPE DRIVE PORT!! VIDEO CARD (MONO DISPLAY ADAPTOR)!! ORIGINAL IBM PC GREEN MONITOR!! PRINTER AND PRINTER CABLE!! (NOT WORKING BUT YOU CAN FIX IT) OVER 200 DISKETTES (5 1/4'', DOUBLE SIDED DOUBLE DENSITY!!) PROGRAMS: NORTON UTILITIES 2.0 WORDSTAR 1.1 DESMET C 1.0 DBASE 2.0 LOTUS 1-2-3 1.0 TURBO PASCAL 1.0 AND DOZENS OF OTHER VINTAGE PROGRAMS I PAID OVER $7,000 FOR THIS PACKAGE!! (I PAID OVER $600 FOR THE DISKETTES ALONE!!) HALF PRICE!!! YOU CAN HAVE IT FOR ONLY $3,500 PLUS SHIPPING!!! -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL your jokes (jokes ONLY) to funny@looking.ON.CA Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply. Please don't send me requests of the form, "could you please send me the joke about XXX?" Yes, I have it, but if I were willing to let myself be a joke server I would spend all day doing it. I reject all such requests.