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From: bbs00068@uafcseg.uucp (Joel Kolstad)
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Subject: The FINAL message about !@#$ serial connectors...
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Date: 15 Sep 90 01:26:07 GMT
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Well, everybody should have their connectors by now... (EXCEPT for two
people who included SASEs that I, uh, forgot about [they were in a 
different pile!] until, uh, yesterday...).  I hope you enjoy them... 
(snicker!)

Two obvious questions that will pop into your mind might be the following:

1 -- Why aren't the sides straight? Well, it seems that I told the guys
     who made them that I wanted them wider than when, sober, I really
     wanted them.  I got to have the fun of getting them down to the proper
     size, and with 100 to do, I didn't spend a lot of time on each one.

2 -- Why are their these little cracks in them?  Believe it or not, those
     aren't from faulty maching.  They're from the superglue-prep I used
     (you DID want those pins to stay in place, RIGHT?)... SORRY!  I
     didn't notice this until I had done them (picking one up... stuck to
     table... give it a good yank... chunk of plastic rips out... argh...),
     and this basically accounts for why I don't have any left anymore...
     I tossed out the worst (which, in case you're interested, means FOUR.).
     Again, I'm sorry, but you can at least rest assured that I did make sure
     that none that went out were about to totally distintegrate on you...

That's about it.  Personally, I am T-H-R-O-U-G-H with connectors.  Period.
Amen.  Never again.  (Or at least next time I do this, it's gonna be a lot
different!).

On a brighter note, now that I'm not playing the connector game, I might
actually get around to making some decent software (and boy, discs are a lot
easy to create than connectors...).  Stay tuned.

					---Joel Kolstad
					kolstad@cae.wisc.edu