Re: FAQ MIT's wind-up computer marvel/scam ?

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From: SolarFlare
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 01:40

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What ever happenned to "second world countries"?

"Viator" <x660y@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> I can imagine that some day in the future,
> I will be travelling in some 3rd world country
> and a kid will run up to me and ask if want
> to buy a wind-up computer that runs Linux.
> "Hundred dolla!" he will exclaim. Twenty-five,
> I will reply. He will frown, but say "deal".
> And then his family will eat well for a month.
>

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