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In article <1803@utoday.UUCP> wagner@utoday.UUCP (Mitch Wagner) writes:
>In article <1990Sep12....@tandem.com> ji...@tandem.com (Jim Lyon) writes:
>#The year was 1984.  The machine was one of the original Compaq portables
>#(now frequently called "luggable" -- expect one arm to get substantially
>#longer than the other if you ever have to carry one across O'Hare airport).
>
>It is a marvelous feature still used in portable computers today. When you 

  I had many good years of service out of my trusty SX-64 Bodybuilder model
personal computer.  My spine was probably only compressed about an inch, at
least permanently - the rest has sprung back over the years.  (why ANYONE
would put a 27 pound heat sink on the back of a machine which already has
a metal case...)

>by the time you've done all that, they weigh as much as a refrigerator
>which could feed a family of eight!
>
>Where does the extra mass come from?

Ah, well, this is a complex and subtle question.  It has to do with the
interrelation between time and matter, called Specific Relativity.  You 
see, while you are transporting a computer in a gravitational field, the
molecular bonds of most metals and semiconductors gain weight due to 
plasmic pseudo-hyperbonding.  Thus, the actual time spent in motion 
relative to an observer relaxing at rest becomes one of the variables in
the weight function.  So, in fact, no additional "mass" as such is 
involved, but local space tends to warp itself roughly around your power 
supply transformer.  The obvious result of this is that, to you, your
arm seems to be getting weaker over time - but it's all merely an 
unfortunate result of the physics of computing.

And no, I will not post a disclaimer - the ONLY reason I flunked physics
twice is that my instructor had an unhealty obsession with exam results.
 
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