Fun_People Archive
4 Oct
Excerpts from JASBITS_6


Date: Tue,  4 Oct 94 13:22:17 PDT
To: Fun_People
Subject: Excerpts from JASBITS_6

[What I think I liked most about this publication was its ascii graphics and
alphabets.  Here are some sample bits with most of the verbiage removed... -psl]

Forwarded-by: mbkomor@remarque.berkeley.edu (m.b.komor)
From: jsquires@CERF.NET Sun Oct  2 20:51:36 1994


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ftp://rever.nmsu.edu/pub/macfaq/
  This archive contains important software no Mac user should be without
  (StuffIt Expander, Disinfectant, etc.) but also much software that is
  quite difficult to find elsewhere like Cheap Color, Typing Tutor, Mac-
  Password, MultiSpool. (Elliotte Rusty Harold, National Solar Observatory)

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/macintosh
http://rever.nmsu.edu/~elharo/faq/Macintosh.html
  A single entry point to all Macintosh resources on the Web.  Filled with
  software, information, online journals, product reviews, full hypertext
  versions of several Macintosh FAQ lists and much more.  

http://power.globalnews.com/
  PowerPC News: Full text of an independent electronic magazine
  published every two weeks for users and developers who want the latest
  news about the IBM/Motorola/Apple microprocessor family and the systems.

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ITEM_6.04 --- THINGS TO FEAR
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      __   `. \o||o/ .'-.    _  MEDUSA MOTELS     ||||        ||||
     /  \__/|\  ||  /|\  \__/ \   "When you want  `'`'        `'`'
     \_/   / \` `' '/  |       |      sleep in...
    /\    /   ||WW||   /    \_/          permanently".
   |  |   |   ||  ||  |    _    
    \  \__/   ||MM||   \__/ |         (CHRISTOPHER HOLLAND KING)
              `----'                    <chking@unity.ncsu.edu>

KRUEL SOFTWARE
  Windows magazine reports that Microsoft Word for Windows has a flaw 
  that under certain circumstances can allow a recipient of e-mailed 
  document to retrieve material that the author had deleted before sending
  it. [ Coooool feature... ] (New York Times 3/16/94 C4) EDUPAGE

  [Also I tried my MS Word spell chk'r for Goldman, it sub'd Goddamn !!! ]

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ITEM_6.06 --- SPACE AND NASA
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  \|/      O  /\   |--.|  .-.   /    \        /
 --*--    ( ) \/\--|__|+./  |  /      `-- -- '
  /|\    (__.) \___      \  `-'
   |    (__ _.)   |     X |  - In space,
        |XXxx)    /Oooo/\/     no one  
        |XXX/    /     \/      can eat
        |XX/    /  .|  |       ice cream 
        |X/     \  \|  |
        Nigel Wale  

In case you were one of the few that missed it, all the Comet-Jupiter pics
  and movies ready for you.  During the period 18JUL94-26JUL94 there were:
    Total Access         : 339,907
    Peak Hourly Access   : 5,904 (Thu Jul 21 2:00 PM EDT 1994)
    Peak Daily Access    : 73,557 (Thu Jul 21 1994)
  http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/comet.html

       Do not go gentle into that good night.
         Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas

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--->QUOTES AND SIG STUFF

If you stomp gripes, do you get whine?

de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  DEFINITION: Three wolves and a sheep
  voting on what's for dinner.  (Bill Gunshannon bill@cs.uofs.edu)

TOMP: Technologically Optimistic Mobile Professionals
  (A new market segment for de latest just-gotta-have-it gadget lovers)

Snacktrek, n.  The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of
  constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new
  will have materialized.  (Rich Hall)


"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
  Ken Olsen (Pres. of DEC) speaking at the convention of the 
  World Future Society in 1977.              (thx2 Anu Garg)


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       \/         \/       \/         \/            \/        \/ \/\/\/

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/    |    \  \     /  / __ \|  | \/  Y Y  \  |  |  / __ \|  |_\  ___/ 
\____|__  /   \/\_/  (____  /__|  |__|_|  /  |__| (____  /____/\___  >
        \/                \/            \/             \/          \/ 

    ___     ___
   (o o)   (o o)
  (  V  ) (  V  )
 /--m-m- /--m-m- 


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ON THE MORE SERIOUS SIDE OF FISH'N ABOUT THE InfoSea: 

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ITEM_6.10 --- COOL SIGNATURES OF THE WEEK
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                                     "O//O"O"O"O`       S   (___) (___)
Bungle's address is :        phulm@csv.warwick.ac.uk    S    `U'   `U'
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    I>  guy is the sec-    /\\ ======             obvious kiss-  /__\
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/\/\ike /-/arney                                     CIS: 73473,531
CIS ShowBiz Forum MST3K Section Leader        Internet: mharney@delphi.com
Pres., Mad Scientists Local 13
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 The Internet is my  (oO)             Allanon Shade Of Darkness
       Keeper,       /C \                IRCNick = NetDancer
  Technology is my  /__/\\            Mparre@Sun4.Cariboo.BC.CA
      Disease..     \\__// Anything you can shove into your brain is good.
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