Fwd: Naked Mini Broke

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Fri Feb 2 10:43:40 2001

At 08:12 PM 2/1/01 -0800, Sellam with his usual tact wrote:
>
>Holy crap. Why is an aerospace company still using such an old-assed
>computer?

   Because it works! Also some of that stuff has to be certified and the
certification is a long a costly process. I recently repaired some HP 41
calculators for Air France. I asked them why they were still using them and
they said that they had to be certified and that certifying new ones for a
two year, $20,000 process!

  Joe
Received on Fri Feb 02 2001 - 10:43:40 GMT