11 Jun
2003
11 Jun
'03
7:03 a.m.
Was it a click type plastic pencil or the ones with wood you sharpen?
----- Original Message -----
From: "emanuel stiebler" <emu(a)ecubics.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: Magnetic Memory making a comeback?
Gary Dean Hildebrand wrote:
As a humorous sideline: When NASA spent
thousands of dollars trying to
make a pen work in zero-G, the Russians simply used a pencil . . . .
Which was a smart thing to do, this way they got rid of all static in
space having all this graphite flying around through the air ...
;-)