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Gathering Goateggs's avatar

Kaypro! In the early 1980s my first husband was a grad student in molecular biology and one of the other students had a Kaypro II. They figured out some way to rig the parallel port to control various pieces of lab equipment. Nothing terribly sophisticated -- along the lines of running a magnetic stirrer for X hours and then shutting it off. But it relieved them of having to get up and go to the lab in the middle of the night. I suppose some of those guys ended up running scientific device start-ups. Bob became a truck farmer, but that's a separate story.

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Kathrine G. Sorensen's avatar

Re: charts A and B

So many plants! So little etouffee!

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