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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 26 Jul 1999.
Re: OT: Computer Names (was: Re: Hairball)

Re: OT: Computer Names (was: Re: Hairball)

On Sun, 25 Jul 1999 09:40:29 GMT, n...@spam.please.com (Arcain) wrote:

>>We did consider naming them after Star Trek:TNG characters, or maybe Roman
>>Emperors, but greek alphabet won out.
>Mistake Andy. I'd much rather log in to \\Nero than \\Epsilon. Either is
>better than \\Picard, and \\Data would get a bit confusing (unless it was
>the current Gamma)

	I dunno about that...while I was network admin at a local
telecom place here, I named all the computers after Star Trek starship
names...Excelsior, Pasteur, Reliant, Stargazer, etc.  
	It was a kick in the head (ok...only for me because I'm a
die-hard Star Trek geek) to log into Stargazer... ;)

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Subject: Re: OT: Computer Names (was: Re: Hairball)
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