From: Bruce Beattie (bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 10 2003 - 19:31:43 PDT
I have a very nice S250. The radios were taken out, but the condition
inside and out
is almost like new. In fact, I dought if it ever saw any duty at all. I
have had it for
about 4 years now, and although I knew there was some stenciled letters
on the back,
they had been sprayed over by DRMO so I never really paid that much
attention to it.
I was more interested in setting it up as a camper.
One day a complete stranger walks by and asks what it is, and I tell
him it's a Radio
Teletype, and then have to explain what that is. Then he asks me why
there is this
stenciled on letters 1 inch high that spells RADIOACTIVE? I snapped
around and duh,
there it is hiding under a few splotches of spray paint, but none the
less quite ledgible.
Any idea what was going on with this unit that they would put that
on it?
The irony of this whole thing is that Bezerkeley is one of those places
that has declared
themselves a nuclear free zone. I never did understand that either,
since I never met a
bomb that could read and obey instructions from the ground.
So there is your Friday night puzzle.
Bruce MVPA 23824 (Starting to glow in the dark)
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