Steve Cooper wrote:
>
> Quoted from The New York Times, July 14, 1996:
>
> COMPUTAPULT  - "Hang time" refers to how long a computer takes to
> process a command.  At da Vinci Days (July 19-21), an outdoor festival
> in Corvallis, Ore., it will refer to how far defunct PC's sail after
> being chucked by a timber-frame medieval catapult.  In a town whose
> largest employer is Hewlett-Packard, the stunt has many computer wonks
> buzzing with anticipation.  But not all.  "There are those," says
> Steven Remington, the event's organizer, "who shake their heads and
> say, 'Must be a guy thing.' "
>
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>
> Now, we can't just sit back on this one, either, can we?  Certainly
> one ought to be able to hurl a defunct 3000 further than a defunct PC!
> Wirt, start building the catapult.  Oh, nevermind.  I just remembered
> that there is no such thing as a defunct 3000.
 
Even if there were, it wouldn't be fair. 'Cos you'd whack it up and
it would just keep right on going and going and going.....
 
Martin.
 
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