Re: the Banana PC Jr 6000/9000

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From: Theodore Swift
Date: Sun, 05 May 1985 09:27

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>At least in Bloom County as it appears here, it's a Banana PC Jr 9000,
>not 6000.  Perhaps this is a reduced version?  (:-)

The majority of the original Bloom County cartoons call it the
"Banana *6000* Self-Portable Computer", but I've heard that even
Berke Breathed (the author) has occasionally slipped and called it 
the 9000.  I suspect people get I/O clashes when they try to type the
correct 6000 and it competes with the strongly-impressed reference to
the HAL *9000* of "2001: A Spaced Oddity" fame.  Mebbe not.

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Subject: Re: the Banana PC Jr 6000/9000
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