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Article #652Re: Shock treatment
From: r... Robert Krawitz
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 21:20
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 21:20
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In article <10...@crash.cts.com>, malloy@crash (Sean Malloy) writes: ]There was a story that came back from a Comdex about HP getting its booth ]stuck next to another big computer manufacturer, and both of them were ]showing PC clones. The expected 'can you top this' wars ensued, which ]culminated with one of the HP people pushing their system off the table, ]then picking it up, plugging the cables back in, and firing it off without ]incident. The people in the other booth were unwilling to match that. Reminds me of the brochure for the HP-85 (or whatever), their laptop 8086 (not 8088) clone. One of the specs was that it would take a 100G shock on any point of its case with the cover (display) closed. I suspect that that's not as much as it sounds (it's pretty easy to generate a high instantaneous force by dropping something), but H-P seems to be in the habit of doing things like that... -- ames >>>>>>>>> | Robert Krawitz <r...@think.com> 245 First St. bloom-beacon > |think!rlk (postmaster) Cambridge, MA 02142 harvard >>>>>> . Thinking Machines Corp. (617)876-1111
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!luth!eru!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!think!think.com From: r...@think.com (Robert Krawitz) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Shock treatment Message-ID: <32700@news.Think.COM> Date: 5 Jan 90 21:20:58 GMT References: <240@sixhub.UUCP> <8255@c3pe.UUCP> <1089@crash.cts.com> Sender: ne...@Think.COM Reply-To: r...@think.com (Robert Krawitz) Distribution: alt Organization: Thinking Machines Corp., Cambridge MA Lines: 18 Posted: Fri Jan 5 22:20:58 1990 In-reply-to: malloy@crash.cts.com (Sean Malloy) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit