...

 JG> minutes to warm up before you could use it or format it....
 JG>  Imagine if you could go back in time when folks used
 JG>  full-heighth hard drives and bring a laptop hard drive to
 JG>  them with an IDE controller card, and tell them... Your
 JG>  10mb hard drive died, I'll just hook up this 200gb hard
 JG>  drive with 20 million times more space in far less size
 JG>  hard drive... Not to mention, the speed would blow their
 JG>  mind! --- ---
 JG>  ---

 That truly would have been funny.

 OTOH, there was a science fiction story quite a few years ago,
 in which a woman went back to the 1950s. She became a Science
 Fiction writer, using the style of various great SF writers.
 When some of them became suspicious because she was writing
 stories they had intended to one of them investigated. When he
 confronted her she showed him her pocket calculator.

 After a short demonstration he asked her, "How many centuries in
 the future did you come from?"

 She answered, "Thirty years."



BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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