Compaq portable questions (not laptop)

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Tue Nov 10 16:46:36 1998

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Russ Blakeman wrote:

> I did some back sale checking on ePay and it seems they sell good there
> as you say but you are also correct that they seem abundant by some of
> the little tidbits I've found by searching the net. This one seems to
> have been originally owned by Boeing Aerospace in Seattle, for work on
> systems that I worked in the military (nuclear cruise missiles). They
> had a program that read the air pressure of a cooling air unit by way of
> the serial port.

Well, there's your angle. Advertise it as a Nuclear Cruise Missile
testing computer and some Arab terrorist will pay you a sack of sheckles
for it.

Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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