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From: mike@l44db.jsc.nasa.gov (Mike Ross)
Subject: Re: Discussion: Flying Robot
Message-ID: <1993Nov12.180347.26138@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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Organization: Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co.  Houston, TX.
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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1993 18:03:47 GMT
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In article <2buirv$bl@sbctri.sbc.com> tadams@sbctri.sbc.com writes:
)
)Dave Novick (dkn@cimar.me.ufl.edu) wrote:
): In article <93309.143253U61738@uicvm.uic.edu>, <U61738@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
)
): already small, and easy on batteries.  A good source for this, which
): I have good luck with, is Tower Hobbies.  Call 1-800-637-4989 for a
): free catalog.
)
)I called, the catalog isn't free, it's $3, they want $40 to be on their 
)mailing list, and I was massively unimpressed with their whole attitude.

I also called, got them to send their free catalog ( a subset of the $3 one )
and when the guy asked how I heard about them, I referred to the Usenet.  He
asked me if that's why all the computer geeks were calling him that day.

When I told him of the size of Usenet and the potential for word-of-mouth
advertising (good OR bad), his attitude brightened considerably.

Anyway, If what I get is any good, I'll post a report.

Computer geeks, unite!  There's power to be claimed while you sit
in front of your monitor like a fat slug, arguing over who would
win in a fight between James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard. :-)

_mike

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