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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 23 May 2001.
Re: PLEASE HELP ME!!!

Re: PLEASE HELP ME!!!

Although I believe that this "desperate" cry for help was probably 
part of a student's experiments in scam methodology, I have to say 
that the term "labtop" does exist and it also predates the term 
"laptop". It was used to refer to relatively small and therefore 
easily movable - within the lab - computers that in the old days 
performed specialized calculations. 

These days laptops (as general purpose computers) can be used in a 
lab or on the road (as true portables), but when used within the lab 
their are still referred to as "labtops". Sometimes, educational 
institutions require specific models of labtop-laptop computers with 
specific configurations.

The ASCII art is pretty cool by the way! :)

LW


In article <3b0...@news.ntlworld.com>, stu...@bigfoot.com 
says...
> On Tue, 22 May 2001 21:15:41 GMT, "Mike  Chomic" <cho...@hotmail.com>
> enlightened us with:
> 
> > I beg you, please help
> > me get a labtop computer.  
> 
> Seems fair enough.
> 
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