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From: Iridios iridios@*********.com
Subject: Present day tech on guns
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 22:19:49 -0400
IronRaven wrote:
>
> At 13.11 07-03-99 -0700, you wrote:
> >are developing a gun with a microchip receiver in it, and accompanying
> >wrist band transmitter. The gun will not fire if it is not receiving the
> >signal.
>
> Gun still won't work when it does recieve the damn signal. They demoed it
> a couple of months ago, and it took the designers, both of whom are
> electrical engineers and gunsmiths, twenty minutes of poking in the guts of
> it to get it to work.

And Windows crashed on Mr. Gates when he went to demo it too, it
happens. :)

--
Iridios
"Accept what you cannot avoid,
Avoid what you cannot accept."

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