[geeks] engage your cloaking devices!

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

IBM had this same issue.  When they were still using punch cards, they 
had some that were electronic vs. purely mechanical.  People wanted the 
electronic version, even though the bottleneck was the speed of feeding 
the cards.

On Oct 20, 2006, at 10:57 AM, James Fogg wrote:
>>
>
> My brother served in the US Navy Submarine Service at the time the 
> first
> transistors were introduced. The Navy would buy re-designed systems and
> modules just because they had a transistor. One he remembered mounted
> the transistor outside the system on a block of Lucite (clear hard
> plastic) with ceramic standoffs just so everyone could gaze at it and 
> go
> "Ooooooh". He knew the system and couldn't find any reason it should
> even have the transistor.
>
>  -James
> If you see the tree as you hit it, it's called understeer, if you only
> hear the tree as you hit it, it's called oversteer.
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Cordially
Patrick Giagnocavo
patrick at zill.net