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Re: So, what are we going to do?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike McNally)
Mon May 2 11:22:22 1994

Date: Mon, 2 May 94 10:16:40 CDT
From: m5@vail.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
To: "Jim Sewell" <jims@Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9405021507.AA09835@Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM>


"Jim Sewell" writes:
 >   A friend of mine that repaired computers said he ran across an
 >   old disk drive that was used in WWII.  The thing had a lever on
 >   the top that was to be pulled should anyone "burst in" unannounced.
 >   As a failsafe to protect our secrets the lever was the trigger of
 >   a mounted .38.  

Uhh...  uhh...  I think you may want to go back and ask this friend
whether he was *sure* it was a disk drive from WWII.  If so, we need
to go back and re-work some history of computing details.

Then again, there was the Philadelphia Experiment...

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