bill@persci.UUCP (09/16/85)
In article <295@frog.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) replied: >> Seen in some AT&T sales lit on the 3b15: >> Operating Environment: >> Altitude: Up to 6580 feet above sea level >Pressure has nothing to do with it. Most of the cost of the 3B15 is the >expensive accelerometer which is used to detect a change in altitute that >will put the unit over 6580.000 feet. When this happens, the unit explodes. >Do not request Air Freight shipment of your 3B15s. It's OK to *SHIP* them by air. The sales lit specified *OPERATING* environment, not *STORAGE* environment. As long as the pilots don't get bored and turn it on to play "Flight Simulator", you're all right. -- William Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill
carl@proper.UUCP (Carl Greenberg) (09/23/85)
In article <> bill@persci.UUCP (William Swan) writes: >In article <295@frog.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) replied: >>> Seen in some AT&T sales lit on the 3b15: >>> Operating Environment: >>> Altitude: Up to 6580 feet above sea level >>Pressure has nothing to do with it. Most of the cost of the 3B15 is the >>expensive accelerometer which is used to detect a change in altitute that >>will put the unit over 6580.000 feet. When this happens, the unit explodes. >>Do not request Air Freight shipment of your 3B15s. >It's OK to *SHIP* them by air. The sales lit specified *OPERATING* environment, >not *STORAGE* environment. As long as the pilots don't get bored and turn it >on to play "Flight Simulator", you're all right. Actually, they've been saving on shipping costs, and letting the 3B15s fly the planes themselves. It was the ultimate test of a flight simulator, and if a program crashed, other things crashed too...
rich@aoa.UUCP (Rich Snow) (09/26/85)
Keywords:Altitude, Environment, Air, Pressure, Engobe, Electroluminescent Albedo In article <400@persci.UUCP> bill@persci.UUCP (William Swan) writes: >In article <295@frog.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods) replied: >>> Seen in some AT&T sales lit on the 3b15: >>> Operating Environment: >>> Altitude: Up to 6580 feet above sea level >>Pressure has nothing to do with it. Most of the cost of the 3B15 is the >>expensive accelerometer which is used to detect a change in altitute that >>will put the unit over 6580.000 feet. When this happens, the unit explodes. >>Do not request Air Freight shipment of your 3B15s. > >It's OK to *SHIP* them by air. The sales lit specified *OPERATING* environment, >not *STORAGE* environment. As long as the pilots don't get bored and turn it >on to play "Flight Simulator", you're all right. > It's not that they'll use it to fly the plane, but what happens when they try to run it on 24Volts DC. <*&^%$#!!@FIZZzz> -rich snow ...!{decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!aoa!rich