Short review of $550 power cord plus a new SWTPC 6800

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From: "Kelly Leavitt" <CCTalk at catcorner.org>
> > From: Chuck Guzis [mailto:cclist at sydex.com]
> > This whole business reminds me of an old scifi short story 
> > where a fellow
> > wakes up 100 years in the future and finds that car 
> > speedometers go to 350
> > mph--but start somewhere around 200 at a dead stop.
> > 
> Wasn't it "The Marching Morons" by C. M. Kornbluth

The way I remember that one was that they had changed all the 
speedometers to read in KPH instead of MPH, then added sound 
effects to make 60KPH sound like the thing was flat out, when 
everyone was really going about 37MPH.

It really sounds a lot like standard marketing practice, to me.

(My copy of the book is a couple of yards to my right.)

    Vince