Short review of $550 power cord plus a new SWTPC 6800 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Oct 2005

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Subject: Re: Short review of $550 power cord plus a new SWTPC 6800
   From: ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
   Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:06:59 +0100 (BST)
     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org

  Very akin to those cheap import "21
jewel" watches, where most of the
 jewels are simply glued on somewhere on the movement.  It isn't a lie, but
 it's a bit of a whopper. 
I read somewhere that when the originator of jewels for bearings in 
watches tried to apply for a patent (or some other legal protection) for 
his idea, an old (then) watch was exhibited which had a jewel in the 
middle of the balance cock in appearently just the right postion, and 
thus the patent was not granted.

Only later (?) was it 'discovered' that this jewel was purely for decoration.

And weren't there '12 transistor' radios in the 1960's where half of the 
transistors had all 3 leads connected to the ground rail (and therefore 
they did nothing other than enable that statement to be printed on the case). 
There were a few that were base 6transistor with parallel devices in the 
ouput amp to boost the count (8 or 10 tr).  I used to buy them to harvest 
the extra devices or everything as they were had very cheaply.

Allison