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Article #17964Further followup on old-fart electronics quiz
From: Max Hauser
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1987 18:51
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1987 18:51
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In article <1901@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: >In article <19929@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, max@zion.berkeley.edu (Max Hauser) writes: >> 5. What is the "purple plague"? > > Undoubtedly the best question! Ain't no way that anyone other than >an old fart will know the answer to this one! And you certainly won't find >the answer in any book! I have to admit this is not completely true. Although I won't spoil the question by discussing the purple plague here, I will concede that microelectronics engineers, even recently trained ones, will have heard of the purple plague if they have a broad backgound. One of the contemporary texts mentions it in some depth (I just checked). However, I heard about it the same way Larry did, many years ago, and anyway there are not that many microelectronics engineers, especially on the net. Max Hauser
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!zion.berkeley.edu!max From: max@zion.berkeley.edu (Max Hauser) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Further followup on old-fart electronics quiz Message-ID: <19931@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Sun, 2-Aug-87 14:51:09 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.19931 Posted: Sun Aug 2 14:51:09 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 22:05:16 EDT References: <19929@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1901@kitty.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: max@eros.berkeley.edu (Max Hauser) Distribution: na Organization: U.C. Berkeley Lines: 18 Summary: More on purple plague