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According to Steven Levy's 'Hackers'[0] it was Steve Dompier's Altair, it was a radio not a speaker, and the tune was the Beatles' Fool on the Hill.

[0] Which it turns out is online at http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/729/pg729.html




Question to Radio Yerevan: "Is it correct that Grigori Grigorievich Grigoriev won a luxury car at the All-Union Championship in Moscow?"

Radio Yerevan answered: "In principle, yes. But first of all it was not Grigori Grigorievich Grigoriev, but Vassili Vassilievich Vassiliev; second, it was not at the All-Union Championship in Moscow, but at a Collective Farm Sports Festival in Smolensk; third, it was not a car, but a bicycle; and fourth he didn't win it, but rather it was stolen from him."


(The canonical version says something like "The information is generally correct, but subject to four adjustments".)




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