swift@reed.UUCP (Theodore Swift) (05/05/85)
>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.
eric@plus5.UUCP (Eric W. Kiebler) (05/09/85)
I remember seeing one somewhere that said "IBM BANANA Jr." Was I hallucinating? eric -- ..!ihnp4!wucs!plus5!eric ..!ihnp4!plus5!eric (314) 725-9492