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Re: Predicting applications (was: Re: Super Conducting Supercollider)

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From: Cameron Randale Bass
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 22:47
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In article <25413@dog.ee.lbl.gov> sichase@csa2.lbl.gov writes:
>In article <1992Aug11.210105.2161@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes...
>> 
>>     Mine are certainly toys.  Aren't yours?
>
>Well, mine were a little too big to be called toys.  Actually, judging
>from the way I felt when others would try to change things, I felt rather
>like it was "my baby."  Until those merciless beaurocrats came along and
>ordered the heartless riggers to dismantle it - to make room for a 
>new radioactive beam line.  Now it is nothing but lifeless scrap metal.
>
>All I have left right now are a box of 8mm data tapes, a MicroVax,
>and a digitizing tablet.  Oh, and an 8mm tape drive, of course. 

     Size has nothing to do with the appellation 'toys'.   Of course, once
     they become scrap metal, they are probably no longer toys (or at least
     not fun toys).

                                 dale bass
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C. R. Bass                                           crb7q@virginia.edu
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia                            (804) 924-7926
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From: crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass)
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Subject: Re: Predicting applications (was: Re: Super Conducting Supercollider)
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Date: 11 Aug 92 22:47:42 GMT
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