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 ------ --- ------ ------- 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!