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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 May 2000.
Re: Either my ISP scews up again,

Re: Either my ISP scews up again,

On Thu, 04 May 2000 20:31:43 +0200, Peter Punk posted:
>On Thu, 4 May 2000 11:54:15 +0100, Ben Norwood <bdn...@aber.ac.uk> provoked the
>following text:
>
>>:  _____________________
>>: |  _________________  |
>>: |O|                 |#|
>>: | | _______________ | |
>>: | | _______________ | |
>>: | | _______________ | |
>>: | | _______________ | |
>>: | |                 | |
>>: | |_________________| |
>>: |                     |
>>: |   ,----------;      |
>>: |   |  _       |      |
>>: |   | | |      |      |
>>: |   | | |      |     ||
>>: |(H | |_|      |     v|
>>:  \__|________,_|______|
>
[snip!]
>
>>Mind you, it's scary to think that in 5yrs time, that little bundle of
>>plastic might be extinct, in favour of a 100Mb proprietry format disk
>>made by Iomega...
>
>Hmmm... I don't use that...
>

You must be referring to one of these little blighters:

 .-|:"""":""""""'''"""":|-.
:  |'----'-------------'|  :
:  |                    |  :
:  |                    |  :
:  |               mga  |  :
:  | .----------------. |  :
:  |[ zip:          [i]]|  :
:  |[------------------]|  :
:  |[                  ]|  :
:  |[                  ]|  :
:  |[.....        PC100]|  :
:  |[::::::..    iomega]|  :
:  |""""""""""""""""""""|  :
'--'--------------------'--'

There's a large pile of them at my feet, which should be in their boxes...
but, well... *shrug*.

Kind Regards,
-Martin
|\/| _..__|_o._   /\_|_| o._  _   mart.atkins@--
|  |(_||  |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_>            --bigfoot.com

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Subject: Re: Either my ISP scews up again,
Date: 2000/05/06
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