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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mr. Pournelle is brain-dead.  News at 11:00.
Summary: broken Tandon disk drive door latch
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Date: 29 Sep 88 18:38:28 GMT
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Most of the time old Jer is an affable chap.  I can even put up
with the long-winded discussions telling us about all the important
people he's button holed lately.

One thing that was odd, was several years ago he went into about a
3 page tirade over a broken disk door latch on a 5-1/4 inch drive.
It seems he tooled down to the local disk drive manufacturing plant
and got thoroughly befuddled when they wouldn't sell him a
replacement part (the door latch).  It seems that he couldn't
handle the fact that the factory wasn't the same thing as repair
parts distributor.

It seems that especially for him, it would have been easier just to
buy a whole new drive and be done with it.  The time he wasted
fussing over the latch was probably a lot more valuable than the
drive itself anyway.

Other than that one incident, Jerry seems to have more or less a
grasp on reality.

--Bill