Disk archival techniques

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Wed May 18 21:53:40 CDT 2005


Tony Duell wrote:
>>>How many people saw that Nova? PBS session where they handed ENGINEERING
>>>undergrads a battery a bulb and a handful of wires?  Many of the students
>>>were adament that it was impossible to light the bulb without a socket.
> 
> It's worrying that I could do this before I even went to primary school...

My father was a Radio Shack fan and always kept me supplied with "Lil' 
Electricity Kit" stuff, so same here.

Was the Nova staged or something?  Surely engineering undergrads would know 
how to make a light bulb light up.  I call bullshit.
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