[talk.bizarre] Dana name change

richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (01/30/88)

In article <302@dana.UUCP> postmaster@dana.UUCP (Steve Sekiguchi) writes:
>
>	dana computer is changing it's name on Feb 2nd dana will become
>	ardent.

AR-DENT (A with two dots r d backwards e nt) adj.  1. Passionate;
zealous; intense.  2. Glowing; flashing.  3. Hot; burning.

So what brought all this on then eh ?

>Steven Sekiguchi

>/* Big people don't get lost in the little picture. */
>
>Ardent Computer (was Dana)

At night I would sit there and weigh her...

>880 South Maude
>Sunnyvale, CA 94086
>(408) 732-0400
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>steve@berkeley.edu

The winning entrant will be given a plaque and ihnp4 for a year.

(ack to bob)

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mdg@smegma.UUCP (Marc de Groot) (02/14/88)

In article <2333@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>
>In article <302@dana.UUCP> postmaster@dana.UUCP (Steve Sekiguchi) writes:
>>
>>	dana computer is changing it's name on Feb 2nd dana will become
>>	ardent.
>
>AR-DENT (A with two dots r d backwards e nt) adj.  1. Passionate;
>zealous; intense.  2. Glowing; flashing.  3. Hot; burning.
>
>So what brought all this on then eh ?

They renamed it after Arthur Dent.


And you thought YOU were unimaginative.














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