[net.general] Gifts to buy for computer lovers.

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].