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Date:      Fri, 26 Sep 1997 20:32:34 +0930
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Niall Smart <nsmart@iona.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATAPI Zip challenge : aftermath 
Message-ID:  <199709261102.UAA01234@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Sep 1997 11:59:32 %2B0100." <Pine.SOL.3.96.970926115747.16065H-100000@ultra> 

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> On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > > Well it takes some of the motivation to do it, and there is nothing
> > > that beats watching the drive go "grrr bonk bonk" when you do something
> > > wrong :)
> > 
> > *chuckle*  Yeah, there is that. Mechanical hardware can be _very_ 
> > satisfying to play with.  8)
> > 
> > (Radar gear can be fun too, but you can't actually _see_ the radiation, 
> > only its effects...)
> 
> Heh, this brings an image to mind of you ducking madly to avoid the death-ray
> from your radar gone mad.

*grin*  I'll spoil the idea by mentioning that the radar I was thinking 
of at the time is a phased array of 144 3-metre Yagis, and you can't 
"avoid" the deathray, especially not at the local console which is in 
the middle of the array 8)

mike





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