[time-nuts] HP Stories: Battery Chargers, and a fading idolization of HP

[Mark Sims]

Back in the late 70's I  worked for a mini-computer company.   They were a horrendous paper-work factory... spec after needless/useless/virtually identical documentation requirements.   I wrote one document where I put all the timings in units of "ffn"...  femto-fortnights.   It was over three years later that somebody asked me what a "ffn" is.  After 5 years, he and I were the only people to ever request a copy of that document.

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>“Hey, no one will notice that the stamping on the transistor doesn’t match the parts list.   I’ll bet no one will look at this schematic carefully anyway.