[ale] [OT] nostalgia - Happy 30th birthday IBM PC

[Ron Frazier]

I'd never heard that many points in the joke before.  Rolling on the 
floor laughing.

Ron

On 10/4/2011 1:11 PM, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> As the joke goes...
>
>    
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>> >  If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving>
>> >  cars with the following characteristics:				>
>> >  									>
>> >  1. For no reason at all, your car would crash twice a day.		>
>> >  									>
>> >  2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to	>
>> >  buy a new car.							>
>> >  									>
>> >  3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuver such as a left-turn would cause>
>> >  your car to shut down and refuse to restart, and you would have to	>
>> >  reinstall the engine.							>
>> >  									>
>> >  4. When your car died on the freeway for no reason, you would just	>
>> >  accept this, restart and drive on.					>
>> >  									>
>> >  5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought	>
>> >  'Car95' or 'CarNT', and then added more seats.			>
>> >  									>
>> >  6. Apple would make a car powered by the sun, reliable, five times as	>
>> >  fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only five per cent	>
>> >  of the roads.								>
>> >  									>
>> >  7. Oil, water temperature and alternator warning lights would be	>
>> >  replaced by a single 'general car default' warning light.		>
>> >  									>
>> >  8. New seats would force every-one to have the same size butt.	>
>> >  									>
>> >  9. The airbag would say 'Are you sure?' before going off.		>
>> >  									>
>> >  10. Occasionally, for no reason, your car would lock you out and	>
>> >  refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle,	>
>> >  turned the key, and grabbed the radio antenna.			>
>> >  									>
>> >  11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of	>
>> >  road maps from Rand-McNally (a subsidiary of GM), even though they	>
>> >  neither need them nor want them. Trying to delete this option would	>
>> >  immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50 per cent or	>
>> >  more. Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the	>
>> >  Justice Department.							>
>> >  									>
>> >  12. Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to	>
>> >  learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would	>
>> >  operate in the same manner as the old car.				>
>> >  									>
>> >  13. You would press the 'start' button to shut off the engine.	>
>>      
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> 	--- Mike
>    

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