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DennisW.Mattison wrote:
: In article <87ybiq4...@tzadkiel.efn.org><4vsa8v$c...@news.usit.net> <4v, 
: Steve VanDevender <ste...@efn.org> writes:

: >tph@longhorn.uucp (Tom Harrington) writes:
: >
: >> Oh, THAT'S RIGHT!  Hard drives and floppy drives spin the other way
: >> south of the equator!  A side-effect of this is that they can't be

: >> I believe this is becuase of the Coriolis effect.

: >You wouldn't believe the peak transfer rates you get on disks in the
: >Yukon.
: >
: >Disk units used in space use a full track buffer and special logic to
: >reverse the bits in the track buffer when in the hemisphere opposite the
: >one of launch.  It's why space-rated computers are so expensive.

: What???  The reason space-rated computers are so expensive is because they have 
: to operate in low atmospheric conditions and be capable of withstanding a huge 
: range of temperatures, from near freezing to near boiling.


I nearly put a smiley on that post, but I was cross-posting to a.f.u
and I knew it would be an unwelcome gesture.  I'm going to make millions
for myself once I develop a captioning system for the humor-impaired.

Or, as they say in certain other newsgroups:  YHBT.  YHL.  HAND.  Or
not; I though the above was so screamingly obvious that it couldn't
really be considered as a troll.

: This whole coriolis 
: effect idea sounds like a varient of the "water vortex goes clockwise north of 
: the equator" hoopla.

Congratulations, you win a Pez!  Yes, that was exactly the nature of
my little joke.

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