Author Topic: Trivia Hunt : Why Is It Called A Zaurus  (Read 6351 times)

speculatrix

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Trivia Hunt : Why Is It Called A Zaurus
« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2005, 07:23:39 am »
I always assumed it was meant to allude to thesaurus, to imply a source of information.

I now stand corrected!
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Trivia Hunt : Why Is It Called A Zaurus
« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2005, 11:53:57 am »
I'm now an iphone user and use my zaurii as serial terminals, perl and shell scripting and when I need 640x480 screens

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Trivia Hunt : Why Is It Called A Zaurus
« Reply #17 on: February 23, 2005, 12:43:35 pm »
Here is was dictionary.com says:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dinosaur

New Latin Dnosauria, group name, from Dnosaurus, former genus name  : Greek deinos, monstrous + Greek sauros, lizard.

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« Reply #18 on: February 23, 2005, 01:09:19 pm »
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Well I guess now I understand the pitch..... er no actually I don't. - Unless these were limited edition novelty power packs for the original Z
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« Reply #19 on: February 23, 2005, 06:57:30 pm »
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Wow...
Freaky, so the Zaurus is a device which allows you to be humped by a frisky T-Rex as part of a Freemason, Illuminati, Satanic nazi conspiracy?

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