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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 20:32:34 +0930
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > > Well it takes some of the motivation to do it, and there is nothing
> > > that beats watching the drive go "grrr bonk bonk" when you do something
> > > wrong :)
> > 
> > *chuckle*  Yeah, there is that. Mechanical hardware can be _very_ 
> > satisfying to play with.  8)
> > 
> > (Radar gear can be fun too, but you can't actually _see_ the radiation, 
> > only its effects...)
> 
> Heh, this brings an image to mind of you ducking madly to avoid the death-ray
> from your radar gone mad.

*grin*  I'll spoil the idea by mentioning that the radar I was thinking 
of at the time is a phased array of 144 3-metre Yagis, and you can't 
"avoid" the deathray, especially not at the local console which is in 
the middle of the array 8)

mike