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> Van: David Schmidt <dschmidt@SILCOM.COM>
> Aan: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Onderwerp: OT: X-files movie has a Basic Stamp 1 (I think)
> Datum: zondag 21 juni 1998 5:10
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> I think I saw a basic stamp 1 in the new X-files movie.
> Check out the timer for the bomb carefully.
> FWIW, I hate it when I see overly complicated alarm timers being

What does FWIW stand for ?

> used in hollywood bombs.

It's hollywood ... Could you, as observer, read a small 6 mm high display
from a distance of several meters ?  Would you _want_ to, as someone
waching the show ?  Is it a nice show to see someone put a happily coloured
box in a corner and push a single button (the timer was pre-programmed,
using a pencil to tap the buttons) ?

> And why does even the electronic ones 'tick'?

So the blind person who would be installing it would know he activated it,
and the "good guy" would know where to look for the damn thing or when to
run :-)

>
> Dave

Greetz,
  Rudy Wieser