🚀 go-pugleaf

Dennis W. Mattison wrote:
>In article <87ybiq4...@tzadkiel.efn.org><4vsa8v$c...@news.usit.net> <4v, 
>Steve VanDevender <ste...@efn.org> writes:
>>
>>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.  This whole coriolis 
>effect idea sounds like a varient of the "water vortex goes clockwise north of 
>the equator" hoopla.

It's not often you see a fish hooked, gaffed, netted, cleaned, gutted, 
and in the frying pan, and it still doesn't realize it's been caught.

Truly September is upon us.

Doug "wurra, wurra" Reade

sig still trying to figure out how computers get into space.  He's broken 
three laptops just trying to get them to fly.  Good thing the machines 
are in such plentiful supply at our local airports.