Bill Poole's opinion of computers.

Computers are Evil

Computers are evil.
They Represent the very embodiment of Satan on earth.
They serve no legitimate sporting purpose.
They are dedicated solely to the destruction of human sanity.

The keeping and employment of UNIX is a cruel and barbaric practice that should have been abolished with the Ottoman Empire

Actually, here are some useful UNIX commands.

Linux?
The Operating System of the Gnu generation?
Gnu, that's a type of antelope. We eat those, don't we, Pop?

AMIGA!?!?
I'm pretty sure I don't have any of those!

This computer (at home, not the one at my i.p.) is an AST pentium 150 MHz, CDROM, 1.2G HD, 3.5", 16MB, FaxModem, Windows 95, etc. I have since upgraded it by adding a second HD, 6.4 Gb and another 32 Mb RAM.

The thing crashed miserably on XMAS day 97, and it wasn't fully back to life until 2-May-98!!! Now I have to reload all my applications. Some of which are lost forever! It went in for warranty repair about 5 times! Buy the extended warranty!

I used to have Linux, but that got lost and I will not reload it, never used it!

I named the computer "Rachel". I had considered the name "Minerva", the name of the DEC mainframe at my first job, but its not a "Mini" computer.....

Mail: bill@poole.com