22 Sep
2010
22 Sep
'10
6:27 p.m.
I found a fun little "business card" in the form of a 5.25" disk platter
with a business name silk-screened on it. See
http://661.org/images/disk-ad.jpg
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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23 Sep
23 Sep
2:34 a.m.
Well the guy who handed them out may have needed a trolly or something
similar to carry then and be able to hand them out at every visit....
Ed
I found a fun little "business card" in the form of a 5.25" disk platter
with a business name silk-screened on it. See
http://661.org/images/disk-ad.jpg
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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?
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1:56 p.m.
> I found a fun little "business card" in
the form of a 5.25" disk platter
> with a business name silk-screened on it. See
> http://661.org/images/disk-ad.jpg
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, E. Groenenberg wrote:
Well the guy who handed them out may have needed a
trolly or something
similar to carry then and be able to hand them out at every visit....
At anything short of Comdex, you will generally not be giving out more
than a few hundred or so at any event.
5:40 p.m.
A similar but different one given out in the UK at the Electronics
Design Show in 1991 was from Allegro Microsystems on a slice of
silicon.
I just put it on the scanner but the resulting scan does not do it justice
http://www.collection.archivist.info/archive/Allegro.jpeg
if anyone knows Allegro/Sprague mask numbers it has
003793P AP82248A 89
at the top edge
Dave Caroline
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
E. Groenenberg wrote:
Well the guy who handed them out may have needed a trolly or something
similar to carry then and be able to hand them out at every visit....
Take one, and lots of backups on tape... :-)
24 Sep
24 Sep
2:25 a.m.
E. Groenenberg wrote:
Definately :)
But who knows, that the same company used 5.25" platters a year or 2
later, just to show that you could get more bits on less surface.
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Well the guy who handed them out may have needed
a trolly or something
similar to carry then and be able to hand them out at every visit....
Take one, and lots of backups on tape... :-)
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