Re: humorous if off topic (follows on to: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage iss

[euphra@cwcom.net]

On 1999-08-05 haude@physnet.uni-hamburg.de said:
   :There was a quite sad incident at the Physics dept. of my
   :University. Apparently, someone had packed a scientific instrument
   :worth some $20K into a Sony 19" monitor carton. The carton plus
   :content got stolen, obviously by someone who thought it had still
   :the monitor in it. I gathered as much from the dozens of desperate
   :notes tacked to every door of the institute offering (in the end)
   :to GIVE the thief a brand-new 19" monitor if he only brought back
   :the instrument (some interference spectrometer IIRC). I don't know
   :if they ever got the thing back.

The really sad thing is that it probably went in the nearest skip or
rubbish dump about ten minutes after it walked out of the Physics dept.
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