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From: stone@yale.ARPA (Larry Stone)
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Subject: Re: Strobe lights -> crashes
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Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 00:43:56 EST
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[eat flaming death, fascist media bugs |-> ]

I once had to deal with an ancient HP2100 (about the equivalent of a
PDP-11) that used paper tape for "mass storage".  It had an optical tape
reader which was *very* fast, but on a sunny day we had to pull down the
shades or the sunlight streaming in would go right through the "opaque"
tape and trash the data!  Fortunately, sunny days aren't much of a
problem here in New Haven..  :-)

        "User-friendly is a front panel with switches & lights,"

        -- Larry Stone (..!decvax!yale!stone)