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: Banazîr the Jedi Hobbit (banazir) wrote,
2006-07-09 11:02:00

Banazîr the Jedi Hobbit
banazir
2006-07-09 11:02:00

Mood: accomplished
Music: Welch, Krauss, Harris - Didn't Leave Nobody But The Baby

Pantemporal Kow

There's an interesting story behind the 1999 Pentium II-400 box I have now put Windows 2000 on. I'm setting up as a legacy system (to be kept in a "mid-2001 state" for the rest of its useful life). Its name is a bilingual pun and a quadruple entendre.

Meet Kow:

Formerly Orome, the Vala whose cattle were known as the Kine of Araw

A Gateway E4200

A bulky and slow machine

"Da kine computer"

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Banazir

Tags: computer hardware, computer names, computers

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