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Oh wow... you have just given me some sense of comfort after feeling like a moron for over two decades. When I was growing up, my dad had visited Seattle and c
by atdrummond 6y ago
Oh wow... you have just given me some sense of comfort after feeling like a moron for over two decades.
When I was growing up, my dad had visited Seattle and came back from the trip with a box of Microsoft Coffee. He claimed to have gotten it from a store called Egg-Head’s Software or Egghead Computing or something like that. (EDIT: Upon reading the full article it seems to have been Egghead Software.)
I took it to my computer club and was laughed out of the room for it being fake. I believe he still has it somewhere, in storage...
Needless to say, I have some friends to email given that I’ve been the victim of “my uncle works at Nintendo” style teasing about this for years.
- pricci 6y agoMy dad too! From EGHead in Seattle. One morning we were going to brew it but it was whole grain and we didn't have a grinder. My dad was a fool for believing a random cashier's word that it was instant coffee!
- MaximumYComb 6y agoEverything in your story lines up with that article. It's probably worth a fair bit now if he can find it.
- prox 6y agoYeah it’s pretty rare probably!
- quickthrower2 6y agoThe last laugh
- emrah 6y agoWhy on earth would you be laughed out of the room for this. Sounds like your friends were a piece of work.
- atdrummond 6y agoIt was the day of “my cousin told me if you did this combo you could get Ermac in Mortal Kombat!” I.E. we were dumb kids who would make things up to impress our friends. They weren’t trying to be mean, they were just incredulous.
- thr0w__4w4y 6y agoI don't know if you're old enough to have played (or heard of) "Adventure" on the Atari 2600. In 8th grade (this would have been around 1980 for me?) one kid (Tom Koester, yes Tom I'm calling you out) told me about some purple dragon that could be unlocked if moved the sword to one specific pixel location on the screen. I burned many weekends trying to unlock that before I decided he'd taken me for a ride. He wasn't known for that kind of prank so I bought it fully.