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Article #648Re: Shock treatment
From: D89.JOHNNY... Johnny Billquist
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 13:40
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 13:40
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In article <8255@c3pe.UUCP> charles@c3pe.UUCP (Charles Green) writes: >In article <240@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: >> Salesman takes out a cartridge and holds it up. "These units are shock >>resistant," he says, and scales it across the room like a frisbee. >Is what I heard in college true, >that Hewlett-Packard used to demo their calculators this way? A friend of mine had his hp11 handled this way by his friend, out of accident. The hp11, as well as all other in the hp10 series is very compact. The calculator went like a projectile through the whole classroom, and the result was a dent above the display. Apart from that, he still has no problems with it. ====================================================================== Everybody know that the DECstation is a pdp8, which is a RISC, but where did MIPS computers get into it? - Johnny Billquist ======================================================================
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!bmc!kuling!aida.csd.uu.se!d89.johnny-billquist From: D89.JOHNNY...@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE (Johnny Billquist) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Shock treatment Message-ID: <12555798374023@AIDA.CSD.UU.SE> Date: 5 Jan 90 13:40:24 GMT References: <240@sixhub.UUCP> <8255@c3pe.UUCP> <1089@crash.cts.com> Sender: news@kuling.UUCP Lines: 20 Posted: Fri Jan 5 14:40:24 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit