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

[Fred Cisin]

> Exam question:  what is actually measured by those numeric displays?

Back when those were current technology, I used that wording with a cow-
orker.  He spent a few hours speculating about circuits to measure
clock speed.  He was really pissed when he opened the machine


We set one to read "97".  One of the more stupid fellows there insisted
that it was almost three times as fast as the "33"s.  'course he was the
same one who wanted to know whether we could add a turbo-charger to a
stock 5150 PC.