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Too funny. I found it with Google Image search:
http://suddendisruption.blogspot.com/2007/10/booting-sage-computer-subjective_5926.html
~Joshua
On 05/24/2012 03:34 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 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."
>
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~Joshua<br>
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On 05/24/2012 03:34 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 05/24/2012 02:54 PM, Joshua Lansford wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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 :-) }
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<pre wrap="">
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."
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