Well, I guess it's a running gag - there are incarnations known in magazines throughout the 80s (like a kit in a mc (a german techie magazine back then) issue) or variations like the enhanced NUL device kit (to reduce the time needed to copy a file into NUL), or the WORN Disk drive (Write Once Read Never), as a spin off from the development of the WORM. There are also connected technological break thrus like the half bit and quater bit storage (or the double bit cell). Over here its a must in some magazines to offer a special extra serious story in their April issue. AFAIK this tradition was coined by mc in 1981 with a small notice about a Basic programm where they didn't know the function ... Thousens of people did key it in just to be sent into fools day ... Starting from this day they did publish one 'story' every year - always well hidden. Later on c't took the stake (mc closed in the early 90s - there is no market for a real hardware orientaded full featured magazine - at least thats what they had been told). Shure some 'user' magazines also try until the mid 90s, but well, just a different league. Gruss H. -- Der Kopf ist auch nur ein Auswuchs wie der kleine Zeh. H.Achternbusch

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