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From: Michael Broadwater <neon@******.BACKBONE.OLEMISS.EDU>
Subject: Re: The talks on my Cyberware post.
Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 13:34:37 -0500
At 02:07 AM 5/2/98 -0400, MC23 wrote:

>>> Incidentally, to compare the various levels to a real-world situation --
>>> when's the last time you saw seven generations of the same product at
>>> market together? This is sort of like having 286s side-by-side with
>>> Pentium II's -- it doesn't happen.
>>>
>>Really? Then what is a "Ham Fest?"
>
>A gathering of people to collect items no longer in the market.

It's called "rhetoric". You may encounter it again.


Mike Broadwater
Member of the Blackhand and Dwarven Illuminati
http://www.olemiss.edu/~neon/

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