bbs00068@uafcseg.uucp (Joel Kolstad) (09/15/90)
Well, everybody should have their connectors by now... (EXCEPT for two
people who included SASEs that I, uh, forgot about [they were in a
different pile!] until, uh, yesterday...). I hope you enjoy them...
(snicker!)
Two obvious questions that will pop into your mind might be the following:
1 -- Why aren't the sides straight? Well, it seems that I told the guys
who made them that I wanted them wider than when, sober, I really
wanted them. I got to have the fun of getting them down to the proper
size, and with 100 to do, I didn't spend a lot of time on each one.
2 -- Why are their these little cracks in them? Believe it or not, those
aren't from faulty maching. They're from the superglue-prep I used
(you DID want those pins to stay in place, RIGHT?)... SORRY! I
didn't notice this until I had done them (picking one up... stuck to
table... give it a good yank... chunk of plastic rips out... argh...),
and this basically accounts for why I don't have any left anymore...
I tossed out the worst (which, in case you're interested, means FOUR.).
Again, I'm sorry, but you can at least rest assured that I did make sure
that none that went out were about to totally distintegrate on you...
That's about it. Personally, I am T-H-R-O-U-G-H with connectors. Period.
Amen. Never again. (Or at least next time I do this, it's gonna be a lot
different!).
On a brighter note, now that I'm not playing the connector game, I might
actually get around to making some decent software (and boy, discs are a lot
easy to create than connectors...). Stay tuned.
---Joel Kolstad
kolstad@cae.wisc.edu