sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) (12/03/84)
Here's a bulletin forwarded from the bulletin board on the Decsystem-10 at the University of Louisville. Forwarded by qusavx!ukma!sean GIFTS / 1 from ART [413,130] on 29-Nov-84 at 13:37 ( 36) Well, if you have been looking for the perfect gift for a fellow computerist, look no further. Here are some suggestions from the Louisville Times and the New York Times. I assure you they are all real. First, for friends who live far away and whom you just don't get to see frequently enough (or have never seen in some cases!): Call 1-800-W-CASTLE to place your order for either 50 ($57) or 100 ($87) frozen burgers. Prices are postpaid. Next, for the true computerist, the following were mentioned in Tuesday's New York Times: 1) Mangle your own floppy disks just like your disk drive does with a treat from Sweetware Inc., maker of Chocolate Eat-Only Diskettes. Gift boxed, 5 1/4 " format. $12.95 postpaid from Sweetware Inc., 516 Shelburne Road, South Burlington VT, 05401, 802-862-6939. 2) Add Chocolate chips to your system. These are dark Belgian chocolate fromed into Very Large Scale Integrated circuit computer chips. Soon available in department stores for under $10. Or order your chocolate chips from Chocolatek, 4475 Mission Blvd., Sweet 211, San Diego, Calif, 92109, 619-272-7720. 3) Finally an entire chocolate computer is offered for $8.95 by The House of Chocolate, Box 907, Canandaigua, NY, 14424 (716-289-4308). Completely portable at 12 oz. Add $1.95 shipping. If you think any of these are made up, just check New York Times, Tues. 11/27 p. 23 and Louisville Times, Wed. 11/28, p. B1. By the way, I would be happy to receive any of these for Christmas (tho, hmmm, I am not sure what I would do with 100 white castles!). ART [End of bulletin].