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From: dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Hardware freaks Unite (on this one)
Keywords: 3B1, cache, hardware project suggestion.
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.041451.906@ceilidh.beartrack.com>
Date: 28 Mar 91 04:14:51 GMT
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In article <1991Mar27.063904.10091@chance.UUCP> john@chance.UUCP (John R. MacMillan) writes:

	[ ... ]
>
>Of course the only way to find out is for one of you folks who know
>which end of a soldering iron to hold to try it out... :-)

	Oh, the soldering iron does a good job of teaching that, the first
time you pick it up wrong after it has been plugged in. :-)

	I remember a advertisment in something like Electronic Design, in
the early '70s, in which the company had gotten a nice-looking secretary to
model for the photos to illustrate their experienced assemblers, and she was
holding the iron (an Ungar, if I remember right) by the CERAMIC HEATING
ELEMENT!

	We got a few chuckles out of that!  (From her expression, the iron
wasn't plugged in.)

	DoN.
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