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Article #649Re: Shock treatment
From: mal... Sean Malloy
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 02:37
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 02:37
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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?
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.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!tank!uwvax!uwm.edu!lll-winken!ncis.tis.llnl.gov!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!crash!malloy From: mal...@crash.cts.com (Sean Malloy) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Shock treatment Message-ID: <1089@crash.cts.com> Date: 5 Jan 90 02:37:01 GMT References: <240@sixhub.UUCP> <8255@c3pe.UUCP> Reply-To: mal...@crash.cts.com (Sean Malloy) Distribution: alt Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA Lines: 23 Posted: Fri Jan 5 03:37:01 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit