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Re: So, what are we going to do?




"Jim Sewell" writes:
 >   A friend of mine that repaired computers said he ran across an
 >   old disk drive that was used in WWII.  The thing had a lever on
 >   the top that was to be pulled should anyone "burst in" unannounced.
 >   As a failsafe to protect our secrets the lever was the trigger of
 >   a mounted .38.  

Uhh...  uhh...  I think you may want to go back and ask this friend
whether he was *sure* it was a disk drive from WWII.  If so, we need
to go back and re-work some history of computing details.

Then again, there was the Philadelphia Experiment...

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