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From: gat@gator.cacs.usl.edu (Gary Thompson)
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Subject: Re: Why aren't more hard disks like the Portable's?
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Date: 5 Mar 90 23:12:58 GMT
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In article <1990Mar1.075451.11357@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> gbrown@tybalt.caltech.edu (Glenn C. Brown) writes:
>mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>
>> ... If I leave
>>for classes in the morning and I don't come back for six hours, wouldn't
>>it make sense for the IIx's HD to have spun down after about an hour?  Then,
                                         ^^^^^^^^^
 [...stuff deleted...]
>be added to all PC's.  Yeah, that's it...  Just like the Shuttle and Tang!
>That's how Apple can justify the Mac Portable's price:
>The Spinoff Technologies!
     ^^^^^^^

Ooooooh!  That's bad :-) ...or it's the best unintentional pun I've seen
in long time!

Gary Thompson
gat@gator.cacs.usl.edu