Connectors (was: NEXT Color Printer find

From: Robert Schaefer <rschaefe_at_gcfn.org>
Date: Mon Dec 31 19:09:31 2001

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 01:03 PM
Subject: Re: Connectors (was: NEXT Color Printer find


> On December 31, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> > The only place that I have EVER met any people who claimed to be
> > "engineers" who might "have never heard of Amphenol" would be some
> > university folk who have never set foot into the real world.
>
> Ahh, those "engineers" who don't know which end of a soldering iron
> gets hot.
>
> A fond memory from around 1991, while working for a small defense
> contractor in NJ, talking with a 2nd-year "summer slave" on loan from
> MIT (of all places!). I'd assigned him to write some data reduction
> code in FORTRAN for a remote sensing project, and later wound up
> having to do it myself:
>
> Me: "This program needs a lot of work."
>
> Weenie: "Hah! Where did *YOU* go to school? See here:"
> [weenie scribbles some incomprehensible equation on the whiteboard]
>
> Me: "I didn't. But I damn well know a REAL*4 on this VAX won't
> deal with the IEEE-format floating point numbers from the
> spectrometer without format conversion, for starters.
>
> Weenie: "WHAT?! [horrified look] You actually want to RUN this program?"
>
> Me: "Of course. Why the hell do you think I asked you to write it?"
>
> Weenie: "Isn't this just an exercise?"
>
> Me: "We are a defense contractor. We build machines to kill
> people. Look at the size of my gut...we NEVER exercise
> around here."
>
> Weenie: "Does this mean I have to type this program in, like on a
computer?"
>
> Me: "No. You're fired."

Ya know, this'll make a lot of funny .sigs, if you pick any set of two
sequential lines.

>
>
> -Dave

Bob

>
> --
> Dave McGuire
> St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
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