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- From: dlou@TROI.UCSD.EDU (Dennis Lou)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: What's a good one??? was Re: CLUB Story
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.110938@troi.UCSD.Edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 18:09:38 GMT
- References: <1992Sep2.014850.27650@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> <1992Sep2.092607.282@lrc.edu> <1992Sep4.215354.2347@research.nj.nec.com> <1992Sep8.145550.8828@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>
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- In article <1992Sep8.145550.8828@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>, c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) writes:
- |> In article <1992Sep4.215354.2347@research.nj.nec.com> behanna@phoenix.syl.nj.nec.com (Chris BeHanna) writes:
- |> > Someone suggested removing the computer and carrying it with you.
- |> >Someone else suggested removing the coil wire and carrying it with you. Both
- |> >options seriously disable the car, although professionals could very easily
- |> >start carrying spare coil wires and computers.
- |>
- |> Hmmm. A user-removable car engine controller, which would be taken off the
- |> car in much the same way the removable radios of today are.
- |>
- |> Now, why didn't we (read .sig below :-) think of this earlier?
- |>
- |> --
- |> Spiros Triantafyllopoulos c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com
- |> Software Technology, Delco Electronics striantafyll@kosds1.gm.hac.com
- |> GM Hughes Electronics, Kokomo, IN 46904 [A Different Kind of Disclaimer]
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- Not only that, but you could encode the VIN number or some other such
- code on both halves of the system so one couldn't just get a spare over
- the counter.
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- Dennis Lou || "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?"
- dlou@ucsd.edu || "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!"
- [backbone]!ucsd!dlou |+====================================================
- dlou@ucsd.BITNET |Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak went to my high school.
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