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- From: bayes@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:14:06 GMT
- Subject: Re: cable curiosity
- Message-ID: <560037@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
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- > Actually, this is the NRFPTD* corollary to HPIB/FLC which states:
- >
- > If an HPIB connector is only mounted in one of two horizontal
- > orientations, why is it backwards eighty percent of the time?
- >
- > Rocky "it was for voltmeters, kids" Craig
- >
-
- Don't forget the other corollary:
-
- If there are 3 HPIB spigots on a box, they will have 3 different
- orientations.
-
- And its sub-corollary:
-
- And at least two of the HPIB cables will exit their connectors
- towards each other in close quarters.
-
- Scott "we still _do_ voltmeters here, dude" Bayes
-