[Info-vax] [OT] Moore's Law dead within a decade

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Bill Gunshannon wrote 2013-10-02 13:24:
> 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
>
>

An english speeking Wikipeda page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagra

"Nagra-brand tape recorders were the de facto standard sound
recording systems for motion picture and single-camera
television production from the 1960s until the 1990s."