27 Jan
2008
27 Jan
'08
4:12 a.m.
On Saturday 26 January 2008 22:58, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I briefly had a Diablo dot-matrix printer--the
carriage servo could
crush your hand if you were stupid enough to put it in the wrong
spot. An incredibly noisy screaming demon of a boat anchor. I got
rid of it while I still had my hearing.
Heh. I scrapped one of those a while back, and still have the mechanicals
sitting up in the attic waiting for me to disassemble them. Servo motor
being about the size of a soup can, maybe? That thing was big, anyhow...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin