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From: dmt@hocsl.UUCP
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Subject: Unplanned April Foolery in BYTE
Message-ID: <118@hocsl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Apr-84 08:17:38 EST
Article-I.D.: hocsl.118
Posted: Mon Apr 23 08:17:38 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 24-Apr-84 07:48:04 EST
Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ
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I wonder if the editors of BYTE ever read the ads they print.
A few amusing examples from the April issue:
    -	Two competitive manufacturers of semiconductor buffers
	for print spooling use the same pun in their slogan
	-- "wait reduction". (pages 79 and 103)
    -	A reader "asks Steve [Ciarcia]" for a source of a 512K
	S-100 board for his Z-100 computer. Steve replies,
	"the largest dynamic RAM boards that I have seen
	on the commercial market for the S-100
	bus are 256K." The ad ON THE FACING PAGE (413) is for
	S-100 boards of 384K to 896K, specifically for the Z-100.
My kids get their laughs from MAD comics; I read the ads in BYTE.

			Dave Tutelman

PS - to compete with the WAFERVAX discussion on the net, see the
letter in "user-to-user" (page 404) asking about the rumor that
AT&T will bring out the 3B20D on a single chip; the reader asserts
that "it's a board-level product now." (The 3B20D, for those who
don't recall, is the duplicated-for-reliability supermini.)