On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 09:47 -0700, Ezra Nugroho wrote: > I kinda doubt it. Doubt what? There was a number of things I wrote in my message, and your top posting makes your remark totally ambiguous. > HDs are now built with precisions and standards that are equal or > exceed those of jet engine making. Consider the engineering that > people use to make micro HDs for IPods, etc. Well, jets crash, too. They're designed by people (all of them), and people make mistakes. > Tape cassettes only use a lot of moving objects. I wasn't thinking of cassettes, I don't think I've even bought a cassette for over twenty years. I use equipment far beyond them in my job. We use decks that cost $11,000 each, for some things. Other people use even more expensive gear. Quite a lot of engineering goes into them, not that you'd believe it when you consider some of the stupid faults we have to deal with. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
