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From: haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: RS232 indignation
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Date: 22 Dec 87 13:16:23 GMT
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        If the standards people wanted to do things RIGHT, they would
     have made only one connector type.

        For instance:   make the left half of the connector male, and
                            the right half female.  Make the connector
                            so that it can plug into itself.  Whalla!
                            No more problems.  UniSex cables!


        But this is in the nature of American buisness.  The only priority
     is "how can we sell the most cables?".


        I recently bought a Hamilton Beach coffee maker.  The caraffe was
     designed in such a way that it was impossible to pour coffee from it
     without spilling it.   I contacted H.B. and they sent me their "fixed"
     caraffe (or however you spell it), quit promply.  It is a little better,
     but also spills.  
        At first I felt that they (the engineers at Hamilton Beach) must be
     a bunch of Idiots.  I figure either

                a)  H.B.'s engineers never took physics.

                b)  it is intentional.

     If it is case b, I figure the water spilling on the warming element
     must reduce the life expectancy of the unit???  Am I being too cynical?
     I guess I pissed off because the reason I chose it over alternative
     machines was the "Buy American, Made in America" sticker on the box.
     

                                                Thanks, sorry for the
                                                   digression,

                                                             Wade.

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