At 02:35 AM 9/23/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Doug Yowza wrote:
>>
>> The last chapter of my "Gun Direction Computer M15" manual has a section
>> on destroying the computer if it should fall into enemy hands:
>>
>> By Mechanical Means
>>
>> 1) Disconnect the gun direction computer from its source of power.
>>
>> 2) Open the hinged doors on the front and rear of the case.
>>
>> 3) Remove the plug-in units from the cells of the computer main frame.
>>
>> 4) Using an axe, pick mattock, sledge, or other heavy implement, destroy
>> the gun direction computer by smashing the range unit, azimuth and
>> deflection unit, fuze unit, quadrant elevation unit, muzzle velocity unit,
>> spot correction unit, origin, reference, replot unit, main control unit,
>> meteorological unit, H/R unit, amplifiers, terminal boards, and blowers.
>> Elapsed time: 5 minutes.
>>
>> [then run away]
>
>How about what should be line 0, using the gun to prevent the rest of
>the instructions being necessary?
Ward, you forget that our government doesn't even trust it's soldiers
with live ammo! When the federal troops were patrolling Miami after
hurricane Andrew they had to send Fla National Guardsmen out with them to
protect the regular army types since the gangs were holding them up and
taking their weapons.
Joe
>--
>Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram_at_cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
>
>When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
>firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright
>
Received on Wed Sep 23 1998 - 08:00:13 BST