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Buying a new Roman laptop...
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11-25-2012, 02:39 PM
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Clearly, Apple didn't get there first....and the latest laptop certainly seems to be impressing the ladies on the right. (Original in the Uffizi, Florence).
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11-25-2012, 05:22 PM
Quote:Clearly, Apple didn't get there first....and the latest laptop certainly seems to be impressing the ladies on the right. (Original in the Uffizi, Florence).
Oh dear, laptops are so yesterday! Anybody who is anybody on the governor's staff has one of these new tablet jobbies. Catchphrase: There's a Wax For That!!

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11-25-2012, 05:58 PM
No, apparently the very latest thing is to combine tablet, laptop and stylus like those clever Greeks....

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11-25-2012, 06:42 PM
Quote:No, apparently the very latest thing is to combine tablet, laptop and stylus like those clever Greeks....
I thought Greeks Inc were being sued by Pomona Ltd for nicking the idea of a rectangle that did stuff...?

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#5
11-25-2012, 06:54 PM
I've heard their lawyers are looking into it....

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And you'll see from the swoosh hand movement that they are using a Pomona iPad.....
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11-25-2012, 07:47 PM
So 1st century...

This is more the thing:

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11-25-2012, 08:57 PM
New friend request from Nortius Maximus, Domina...
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11-25-2012, 09:05 PM
Quote:Nortius Maximus

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11-25-2012, 09:17 PM
'Sappho' ponders over a particularly troublesome Tweet.

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11-25-2012, 09:22 PM
'Sappho' ponders over a particularly troublesome Tweet on her handheld device.


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11-25-2012, 10:27 PM
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11-25-2012, 10:47 PM
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11-25-2012, 11:24 PM
Obviously this technology was never available to the plebs, they could barely afford to keep themselves in fags.
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11-27-2012, 03:00 AM
I have a real Roman NINTENDVS just looking for the picture.
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11-27-2012, 11:04 PM
Quote:Obviously this technology was never available to the plebs, they could barely afford to keep themselves in fags.

I'm going to assume you meant "Rags?"
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