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On Tue, 11 Feb 2025, rbowman wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:03:44 +0100, D wrote:
>
>> Ahh... those were better times.  But with complicated system designs,
>> how did you join several 100s of napkins together?
>>
>> Or was one napkin the constraint put on all the designs?
>
> You can get a lot on a napkin. One night at the Ramada Inn bar I got into

If you have very small handwriting, that could also solve the problem! ;)

> a discussion with a contractor who was calling on one of the defense
> industries in the area. I roughed out a scheme for an electronic firing
> system for something like a mini-gun. It must have been good because he
> called me the next day with a job offer. I declined because I couldn't
> remember what sort of smoke I had been blowing the night before.
>
> Yeah, I was definitely in that culture.
>