Completely and totally off-topic and without any meritwhatsoever

From: Andy Holt <andyh_at_andyh-rayleigh.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Tue Sep 7 09:12:58 2004

> > I've got some quicksilver that I liberated from some evacuated
> glass tubes
>
> Actually, that reminds me - I saw a chap in the UK trying to get rid of
> several kilos of the stuff a short while ago. I can't help thinking that
> *something* interesting could be made using it, although I'm not sure
> what.
>
Hey, lets bring this back on topic and consider how to build some mercury
delay lines as required by certain 1st (0th?) generation computers. :-)

Andy
Received on Tue Sep 07 2004 - 09:12:58 BST

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