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Spellabyte was setting up a software company
to compete with the mighty giants -
Microsoft and
Sun Microsystems. Unfortunately, unlike those
corporations, he couldn't afford MBA's to do his marketing, and until he got his
venture capital money, he couldn't even afford programmers. In the meantime he
was making do with retired hedgehogs. These old hedgehogs had very stiff
prickly spines and rolled around in paper tape, which was read by an old paper
tape reader, buffered to disk,
and then burned onto CD-ROM. The resulting software had a lot of interesting
features, but was a bit buggy. However, the labels would clearly indicate that
this was only version 1.0 and that customers who actually wanted to USE the
software could download the latest version from the web. By then, he hoped, he
would have enough money to recruit some retired spiders...
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