It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000™
We’ve decided to clean out our attic and my job was all those boxes of software and Sierra memorabilia. First up is an old friend who will be going to eBay.
When Steve Jobs wanted to name his new computer after his daughter, he discovered that Sierra Online held the rights to the name “Lisa” because it published an Apple ][ assembler with that name. Jobs called Ken Williams, founder and C.E.O. of Sierra, and offered to send Ken some of the new Lisas when they shipped, along with some then-unnamed machines that would come later.
The Lisas soon arrived, complete with their massive 5MB hard drives, followed a few months later by several Macintosh prototypes, which Sierra used to develop Frogger (and other games), the first game widely available for Mac. True to his word, when the Mac shipped in January 1984, four more Macs arrived at Sierra, along with this “dealer display lamp,” which went into Ken Williams’ office.
Months later, during a meeting with Ken, I noticed this Macintosh Picasso lamp sitting on the floor. I asked about it and was told he needed the room and was going to discard it. I begged a little and Ken was glad to be rid of it. It has served as my office night light for the past 32 years.
Now I “need the room” and you get a chance to own a bit of computer history. See the complete listing on eBay now:
http://ebay.to/2pGyko0
And to paraphrase myself: "Bid early, bid often!"
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Today's CyberJoke 3000™
I've finally learned how to avoid that argument with my wife about leaving the toilet seat up: now I use the sink!
Silly auto-correct. I texted, "Sure, let's remain friends" but somehow it came out "You ripped my heart from my chest and shat on it, you slut!"
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