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What's Hot...and What's Classic
By the Silver Ghost
"The Mac is sexy. The IBM is an orgasmatron."
Let's face it...I'm tired of getting the things that *I* like pushed
around because some teenybopper thinks they're not "in" this week. Here is
THE list.
What's Hot What's Classic
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II-GS II series
Friday the Thirteenth, Part n Psycho
Pink Floyd, The Wall A Clockwork Orange
NBC BBC
Wheel of Fortune The Price is Right
65C816 8088
Leather Goddesses of Phobos Zork I
OMNI minidisks Verbatim DataLife
DeLorean Saab 96
Lamborghini Countach Saab 99 Turbo
Audi 5000CS Turbo Quattro Saab 9000 [Get the picture yet?]
Girls who drive Mustang GT's Girls who drive blue Ford Escorts
"Under-the-hood" Superhet's Escort radar detector
The new 65 mph speed law The old 70 mph speed law
NEW Diet Pepsi Diet Coke
"Outrageous" Cherry Coke Classic Coke with Cherry syrup
The Cosby Show Bill Cosby
Compact Discs Vinyl
Rogue HACK
Subscription-password BBS's Begging users for contributions
Year of the Dragon They Call Me Bruce
Billy Crystal Peter Sellers
The Monkees...Twenty Years Later The original Monkees
The original Monkees The Beatles
Van Halen, "5150" Black Sabbath, "E5150"
David Lee Roth Ronnie James Dio
John Lennon, "Twist And Shout" John Lennon, "Twist And Shout"
Cyndi "Teenybopper" Lauper Cyndi "Time After Time" Lauper
Skateboards Off-Road 1/8 RC cars
"Central Park" mimes Marcel Marceau
600+ Freshmen not cheering as loudly as 350 Seniors
CROBOTS Robotwar
Electronic "silent" typewriters 50 horsepower electric typewriters
Super Sprint Pole Position
LaserWriter Toshiba 24-pin
"Smart" modems Hayes
"What's Hot and What's Not" "Real Pirates..."
Yuppies Yuppie jokes
Punkers Punker jokes
9th Amendment 1st Amendment
Ultima XVII Core Wars
Bud Light Michelob
Transformers Thundercats
Steve Wright Marvin ('Hitchhiker's Guide')
Dave Letterman Benny Hill
Joan Collins Johnny Carson
W "94 minute music sweep" KLQ W "24 hour music sweep" IDR
James A. Michener Robert Heinlein
Stephen King Alfred Hitchcock
ADA Forth
3 1/2 5 1/4
Slow IBM (4 MHz) spreadsheets Fast Apple II (1 MHz) spreadsheets
MS-D0S 19.4, Revision XJ-9 Pronto-DOS
Locksmith 6.0 Pirate's Friend
Amiga "4096 colors!" graphics Tektronix "65536 colors" graphics
$80 Macintosh terminal software Red Ryder
BBS-PC Fido
In case you still don't understand...something "hot" is a decent little
hack that performs extremely well under current conditions, but (being
tailored for today) will likely be of little relevance when the industry
marches on. Something "classic" is a decent little hack that maybe doesn't
perform quite so well now, but (being basically well-made) performed just as
well yesterday and will continue to perform just as well tomorrow--when the
"hot" items have faded.
------Q: What was the name of James Bond's custom Saab 99 Turbo?
---------A: The Silver Ghost. EOF!