8 Nov
2010
8 Nov
'10
4:53 a.m.
On 7 Nov 2010, at 18:00, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
Message: 7
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 21:15:55 +0000 (GMT)
From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
Subject: Re: Fragility in the floppy world (was Re: TRS-80 Model II
Manuals)
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Message-ID: <m1PEq7C-000J48C at p850ug1>
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Except that I am in the wrong country for this.
Do you _really_ want me to try it?
Definitely not, for one thing you would not be able to report back the result of the test
if successful, only if it failed.
A bit like testing the I/O instruction that a torpedo's processor issues to explode
its charge, and the code it executes afterwards. The Q.A. department of course would
insist that the absence of a detonator and charge might affect the result of the test so
must be connected up.
We do get into some weird discussions don't we, like guns. What's next? Using
classic computers for "sex and drugs and rock and roll"? World domination?
Extermination of parasites? Building of DNA molecules to breed a super intelligent
organism which will then decide to eliminate what it regards as parasites, the human
race?
If you must go off at tangents, please at least change the subject line!
Roger Holmes
> Oh,
go ahead... But I beleive that cucifixion has never been used as a
>> suicide method.
> No. I've tried it dozens of times; there's just no way you can hammer in
> the last nail.
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
I have this image of 4 of those butane-powered
nailers used by builders
suitably arranged nad with a remote triggger facility. You get your arms
and legs in the right places, somehow press the switch and bang...
You might be able to get away with one of the Sears "Nextec" cordless
electric hammers. No I am NOT thinking of trying this.
So,
the technique remains untested.