¢AN I/O CABLE TO THE RESCUE!¢by S.J.Murray¢¢ I have just returned from a short break at my grans in Inverness. On the journey up last Friday the exhaust of my car split into two pieces just as we were approaching the outskirts of Inverness. Drat! I stopped the car, put on the hazzard lights and thought to myself, "what do we do now?" It was 10 p.m. and we were twenty miles from my grans house. Within a couple of minutes a police car stopped behind us. Double drat! I had to think fast.¢¢ I got out and showed them the problem. They told me that it would be OK to travel the last twenty miles as long as I tied up the exhaust pipe. All this time I was drastically trying to think of something I could use to tie up the pipe. I looked in the glove compartment - nothing! My girlfriend looked in our suitcase - nothing! Hmmm? I had decided to take my trusty ole Atari 8-Bit system up to my grans to complete some Futura orders. Ah ha! I delved into the bag of computer cables and pulled out an I/O cable, aerial lead and joystick. Which one would be most suitable? Hmmm? I decided upon the I/O cable as it looked the most sturdy. Within a couple of minutes I had tied up the exhaust pipe with the I/O cable and we were on our way to my grans (she probably heard us coming from miles away).¢¢ Is this the end to the story? No! After replacing the I/O cable with a length of string, I decided to see if it still worked OK... Even though the plastic had melted along the middle, it worked fine. Atari I/O cables are indeed built to last!¢¢¢P.S. I got my exhaust replaced the following morning and they didn't use any Atari products.¢
