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

[Paul Sture]

In article <bb2e2kFleenU1 at mid.individual.net>,
 bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:

> 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!"  :-)

I must admit I too assumed that Nagra was a watch.

In the field of tape recorders, Revox is also Swiss.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revox>

-- 
Paul Sture

IBM's Thomas J. Watson predicted a "world market for maybe five computers".
Given the way this whole Cloud thing is going, he might have been extremely
prescient.