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Re: humorous if off topic (follows on to: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage issues...)

Labelas Enoreth wrote in message ...

>I remember one time some thieves broke into a friend's house and stole his
>TV, VCR, a computer and some other electronics stuff...rather than mess
>with unplugging stuff, though, they had something like a pair of
>wire-snips and just cut all the wires. Which must have made a pain for
>them since the power cords were hardwired to both the TV and VCR

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I had that happen to one of my customers.  I got a call on the monday, and
they had done that to an entire LAN over the weekend.  The cables were some
weird 9 twisted pair scheme that were all custom made.  It was a bitch to
get it back up and running.