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- From: David Mason <vid@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Re: Prisoners of Gravity
- Organization: ZOOiD BBS
- Distribution: tor
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:43:16 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.194316.26111@zooid.guild.org>
- References: <1993Jan23.220122.21479@druid.uucp>
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- darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
- >Anyone catch POG this week? Cliff Stoll was on for a short bit. The
- >best interview was with Douglas Adams however. He was talking about
- >how badly designed his computer in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe"
- >series of books was designed. He remarked:
- >
- > "It was so clunky and clumsy it might
- > have been designed by Microsoft."
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- Seeing how Adams is plainly, from his frequent references in his Holisitic
- Detective book, a Macintosh fanatic, I would call him a useful source of
- anecdotes but not exactly a source of unbiased information.
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