[net.misc] Computer Handicapping

psuvm%d02@psuvax1.UUCP (06/06/84)

(squash)

        I was just wondering if anybody on the net has an interest in horse
racing, especially with regards to developing computer handicapping methods.
Does anybody know of any computer database with past performance records?
I would be interested in discussing racing with anyone who is interested.

                                                -- Jerry Derr
                                                   (D02 at PSUVM)

berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) (07/10/84)

Here are some computer handicapping methods I find effective:

	1) Drop power from 240 to 180 volts
	2) remove every third RAM chip
	3) Smoke in the machine room
	4) intermittently break contact on one leg of the 3-phase
	   supplt (This actually happened once -- yecch)
	5) rm -r /

moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) (07/11/84)

Or the old fashioned method of sticking a crowbar into the air conditioner...
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