3 Jun
2013
3 Jun
'13
5:53 p.m.
>> "If you let me pidk the course, my
jalopy can beat ANYTHING."
>> (I had to concede once on that argument. I proposed Honda 600,
>> up the freight elevator of Evans Hall, around the roof and back down, but
>> my adversary turned out to be an elevator mechanic, who pointed out that
>> he would have little difficulty trapping me between floors long enough
>> for
>> him to disassemble his GTO and reassemble on the roof)
> Remember: never compete with elevator mechanics.
Joe made that quite clear. We then went into business together making
TRS80 peripherals (drive case/PS, bus extender (with active termination),
etc.) Later, when we split the company, he had a good career building
elevator survey computers (data collection of car travels), using
TRS80III, then 5160 motherboards, then small single boards, in Halliburton
attache case.
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013, ben wrote:
So what can you drive *Up Stairs*.
Nothing that I currently own. But, in those days, . . .
Jeep FC170, Honda 305 "Scrambler", Honda XL175
Honda N600 could go DOWN stairs, but not up (cf. Minis in ORIGINAL
"Italian Job")