[sdiy] Radio Shack catalogs

[Walker Shurlds]

(2a) sounds like the kind of thing I would do, if I had a goatee.

Walker

On Wed, 12 May 2010 17:17:26 -0500
"Paul Schreiber" <synth1 at airmail.net> wrote:

> The guy they did hire was the son-in-law (oh boy) of a factory
> manager. He was from the same graduating class. He was in charge of
> writing hard drive seek and read/write endurance tests (these tests
> ran for like 3 weeks, logging errors). He spent about 3 months on the
> code (all in Z-80 assembly) and it was time for the CDR (Critical
> Design Review, where in from of the entire EE staff you presented the
> work). He ran the demo, it works flawlessly, the screen was logging
> all these seek requests in nice columns with a stripchart showing
> progress and the hard drive heads were flailing all over the platter.
> When he asked if there were any questions, the head EE, without
> saying a word, reached across the table and yanked the ribbon cable
> completely off the hard drive. His software NEVER BLINKED OR
> REGISTERED AN ERROR. Everyone quietly filed out of the room and the
> VP was trying to be calm said "I think you have a bit more work to do
> before beta testing".