Re: Shock treatment

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From: Charles Green
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 03:29

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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?
-- 
{decuac.dec.com,cucstud,sundc}!c3pe!charles	ex::!echo Boo:

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Subject: Re: Shock treatment
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Date: 3 Jan 90 03:29:28 GMT
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