• By Lynn Peril
    Nov 10, 2008 12:46 PM 4,569
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    John Cleese Explains Why The Compaq II Is Better Than A Dead Fish

    Let's see, to begin with, the fish weighed 22 pounds. So did the Compaq Portable II computer (in retrospect, perhaps "luggable" is more accurate). Here, in a British commercial from 1986 or so, former Python John Cleese lays out the rest of the argument for the computer's superiority - including its big 4.2 megabytes of memory.


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