[Info-vax] [OT] Moore's Law dead within a decade
Bill Gunshannon
bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu
Wed Oct 2 07:24:04 EDT 2013
In article <524bdd63$0$50682$c3e8da3$92d0a893 at news.astraweb.com>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> On 13-10-02 04:33, invalid wrote:
>
>>>> >>> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
>>
>> Can somebody translate this into English please?
>
>
> It's a Nagra, it is Swiss, and very very precise.
>
> I had to ask my friend Mr Google and he pointed me to a french page of
> Wikipedia. nagra is polish for "it will record". It was apparently the
> first portable magnetic tape recorder and made in Switzerland started in
> 1950.
>
> http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagra
>
>
> There is also:
>
> http://www.nagra.ch
> Nagra stands for «National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive
> Waste».
>
Knowing what the Swiss are famous for (other than chocolate) I always
assumed "Nagra" was a wristwatch company, like Rolex. And this was
some kind of advertising blurb. You know, like "Nothing sucks like
a VAX!" :-)
bill
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