Mail Archives: geda-user/2012/05/24/15:35:03
On 05/24/2012 02:54 PM, Joshua Lansford wrote:
> Wow. We've been going though CE certification on our products for some
> time now. Never even considered that different certifications could
> conflict. Oh and yes. We have had the circuits blown in one of our
> gauges because someone arc welded a bracket or something to it. We told
> them that that was probably not a good idea. :-p {... hmmm if I arc weld
> my computer to my desk, no one will take it ... and the data will be
> safe... permanently :-) }
That reminds me of a story so hilarious that I will copy it below.
Disinterested parties should exercise the "delete" button. This is from
one of Jerry Pournelle's many articles in BYTE magazine almost thirty
years ago, about a Sage II computer, a rather nice 68K-based machine
that ran either CP/M-68K or the UCSD P-System. I have one of these
systems in my (budding) museum.
-Dave
"When I visited Sage at the Reno headquarters,...I also saw the oddest
computer I’ve ever seen in my life. I mean. I’ve seen plenty of desktop
computers, but I never saw one bolted to the side of a desk before; yet
there was a perfectly good Sage II in that situation. It was running,
too. None of the Sage crew seemed to think that was odd at all. They
were used to it. Finally, I had to ask.
It turns out that in the early days of Sage, when they first began to
ship machines, they got more orders than they could fill; so that
whenever Bob Needham, one of the cofounders (with Rod Coleman), would
get a machine to help him with advanced system design, someone would see
it and ship it off to a paying customer. Eventually Bob decided that
enough was enough and bolted a new Sage II, sans case and fan. onto the
side of his desk. The disk drives and power supply were in a drawer."
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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