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From: wayned@wddami.spoami.com (Wayne Diener)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Weirdness Electronics was "NAVY WITHHOLDING EVIDENCE"
Message-ID: <wayned.9720@wddami.spoami.com>
Date: 31 Oct 90 23:56:39 GMT
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>In article <1883@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> chroma@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (C. Elliot Friday UMN ) writes:
>In article <1089700002@cdp> nec@cdp.UUCP writes:
> / 
> /                          "UFO CENTRAL"
> /                         The Forbidden City
> /                             AREA# 51
>I >secretly< know eminate from the Planet Gullible. Does anyone know 
>what is >really< in these devices? I know lots of people will guess
>(maybe correctly) that they are just circuits that blink lights or
>go on at random or somesuch.  But I want to know if anyone has ever
>acquired any of these devices (preferably at a flea market, as in the
>mags the cost is often as outlandish as the claims) and looked inside,
>and is it interesting ? Is it worth building one just for fun?  There

My step-father was somewhat gullible along these lines and let himself
get talked into purchasing a device that was supposed to be able to 
project your thoughts to get crops to grow, cure diseases, bring rain
or halt floods (your choice :-)), etc.  (He had the money, so what the
heck.  We didn't even try very hard to talk him out of it.)  The company
gave the box a five year warranty (don't ask what it warranted) that 
would be null and void if the seals (and there were plenty) on the box
were broken.  My stepfather wouldn't let me break the seals, but I did
manage to "pry" open one side enough to get a look inside at the circuit
board.  There were a couple of 40 pin dips, 3 or 4 28 pin dips and 
probably about 20 of the 20, 16, 14 pin variety.  All the markings
on the chips had been painted over so you couldn't tell what the parts
were.  I have no idea what was going on in there (they could have been
non-functional parts for all I know) but it was actually pretty good
workmanship (neatly dressed cables to the switches and meters, etc).
If I ever make it back home again (and remember) I think I'll see if 
I can find it and tear it apart.

Uh, no.  To my knowledge it cured no diseases, didn't bring/halt rain
and didn't noticeably improve any crops.

(;-))

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