5 Feb
2006
5 Feb
'06
2:33 p.m.
In article <200602041206.30714.rtellason at blazenet.net>,
"Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net> writes:
In 1978 I was told that Ma Bell telephones would survive a drop from a
3-story building. I was in disbelief. I was made a believer by
throwing a phone out a window and collecting it from the ground below.
The plastic has some scuffs and scrapes on it, but everything worked
and nothing was broken.
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Like, say, for
example, ads that advertised ruggedized computers by saying
they could survive a drop from the empire state building...
Were there any? ;-) That would be a good show...
There was some "event" out on the west coast a while back where they did just
that sort of thing, dropping computers off of the top of a building.
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