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* The first [[Apple Macintosh|Apple]] computer ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|the Apple I]]) went on sale in July 1976 at the price of $666.66. This was due mostly to a collection of mundane coincidences: [[Steve Jobs]] setting the price at $500 (plus a 1/3rd markup), because Steve Wozniak "liked repeating digits" and both Steves' general ignorance of the significance of the number.<ref>This was before the Internet.</ref>
* The first [[Apple Macintosh|Apple]] computer ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|the Apple I]]) went on sale in July 1976 at the price of $666.66. This was due mostly to a collection of mundane coincidences: [[Steve Jobs]] setting the price at $500 (plus a 1/3rd markup), because Steve Wozniak "liked repeating digits" and both Steves' general ignorance of the significance of the number.<ref>This was before the Internet.</ref>
* Up until 1999 there was a bus # 666 in Moscow. At the request of the local Christian folk it was changed...[[Hilarious in Hindsight|into]] [[Did Not Do the Research|616]]. I kid you not.
* Up until 1999 there was a bus # 666 in Moscow. At the request of the local Christian folk it was changed...[[Hilarious in Hindsight|into]] [[Did Not Do the Research|616]]. I kid you not.
* Toronto motorist Daniel D'Aloisio *had* vanity licence plate 'VI6SIX'... for 15 years. The Ontario government [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLIBfF-N68I took it away from him] as VI (Roman numeral 6), 6, six yields 666, the number of the beast.
* [[UNIX|POSIX]] file modes being represented by 3 bytes (owner-group-others) and 6 being 2nd and 3rd bits set, there is (per one of [http://www.nancybuttons.com/ Nancy Buttons]) "rw-rw-rw: The file protection of the beast" <ref>actually it should be "rw-rw-rw-", of course. or "-rw-rw-rw-"</ref>.
* [[UNIX|POSIX]] file modes being represented by 3 bytes (owner-group-others) and 6 being 2nd and 3rd bits set, there is (per one of [http://www.nancybuttons.com/ Nancy Buttons]) "rw-rw-rw: The file protection of the beast" <ref>actually it should be "rw-rw-rw-", of course. or "-rw-rw-rw-"</ref>.


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