(Tag changed) On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 22:01:04 -0400, John J. McDonough wrote: >...< ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Howard Winter" > Subject: Re: [EE:] Aircraft laptop Power connections > > > > That's an American thing - here in Britain they are still called Laptops. > If you asked for a notebook here, you'd get a pad of paper! :-) > > Paper? Isn't that what the Egyptians used to use? >Seems like they took > berry juice and marked on it with a pointy feather or something like that. Well that was papyrus, made by weaving strips of grass - although the name is related, paper as we know it came from China, generally thought to have been invented by one T'sai Lun... > Is your island so isolated they still do that? Are you saying that electronic devices have replaced all the funtions of paper where you are? Remind me not to touch any handheld computers I find in your bathroom! ;-) Cheers, Howard Winter St.Albans, England -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu