25 Nov
2008
25 Nov
'08
1:46 p.m.
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Tony Duell wrote:
This is a bit of a headscratcher for me. Why bother worrying about if the
screws are original?
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Now we have an
auto industry that is mixing SAE and metric, much like UK a
long time ago, other than the lack of Whitworth.
As I mentioned a week or so ago, I've just bought an HP59309
HPIB-interfaced clock. None of my HPIB cables will fit it. The reason is
that it's sufficiently early to have 6-32 UNC jackposts on the HPIB
connector, rather than the M3.5 metric ones that came later, and nobody
has done the conversion (new jackposts). I'm not going to do it either,
something that old should be kept original. I'll jute replace the locking
screws at one end of one of my (many) HPIB cales.