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From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: I hate to say I told you so...
Message-ID: <401@snow.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 18:41:49 EST
Article-I.D.: snow.401
Posted: Tue Feb  4 18:41:49 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Feb-86 21:56:00 EST
References: <2390@gatech.CSNET> <274@ivax.icdoc.UUCP> <363@ukecc.UUCP>
Reply-To: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Organization: Computer Science, Warwick University, UK
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In article <363@ukecc.UUCP> edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) writes:
>In article <274@ivax.icdoc.UUCP>, iwm@icdoc.UUCP (Ian Moor) writes:
>> Please respond on the following topics:-
>> The Dinette advert..
>	I presume you means things like "Dinette for sale. Call Jim @ x435".
>These are just posting from inexperienced users who've never heard of
>the bolour supplement.

Please!  what *is* a dinette?  I've been reading the net for a good while
now, and no-one has ever explained what the *$&(#"@(!'~ things are.  You
see, we don't have them over here in the UK (well, at least not by that
name).

>> Is Gene fit to pedal a C5 ?
>	What's a C5?

*Was* a C5...  a gloriously misbegotten invention of that "great man of
British science and technology", Sir Clive Sinclair (yea, he of the ZX81
et al. (though I think they were sold by Timex in the USA)).  A kind of
electric tricycle, which required no drivers' licence.  They were not
cheap, had an astoundingly low maximum speed, and needed pedalling (the
auxiliary motive power source) if you didn't want to discover a flat
battery whilst just in front of a large articulated vehicle.  They sold
like bicycles for fish, and were withdrawn from sale rather quickly.

Sinclair did the development of the beasts just up the road from us at
Warwick in the Science Park: as a PR gesture, they gave the University
several, and I may tell you it was a fairly comical sight to watch our
security guards zipping along at 5 mph with a tailwind...

							Kay.
-- 
Virtue is its own punishment.
			... mcvax!ukc!warwick!kay