From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron minnich To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie: life without rio In-Reply-To: <200310031632.h93GWUj06889@augusta.math.psu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:42:37 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5c9be2dc-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Dan Cross wrote: > I don't know about you, but if *I* saw a solid gold heat sink, I'd > buy it, take it home, melt it down, and sell it at a bank, and then > replace it with something made out of some other metal. I worked at HP as in intern in the good old (gold) days when many HP divs made their own boards. There was a room in it with lotsa gold bars for the boards. I still have a PC board with a huge HP logo on it from those days. ron