Soldering (Was: Re: HP-IB, Amigo/cs80 ... )

[Ian King]

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> bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:03 PM
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> Subject: Re: Soldering (Was: Re: HP-IB, Amigo/cs80 ... )
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> On 10 Mar 2010 at 17:48, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> 
> > Coke (or Jolt!) is for Assembly and C and FORTRAN.  Pepsi is for
> > PASCAL (and other languages I don't like ;-)  (Sugar vs Sugar-free is
> > target-language agnostic.)  I suppose one could come up with a
> > suitable cola match for FORTH and other less-commonly-encountered
> > languages.
> 
> When Fry's opened their first electronics store in the Bay area, they
> were the cheapest place to buy Jolt cola by the caselot.  For a time,
> there was some bizarre chocolate-flavored diet soda (Canfields) that
> enjoyed a brief bit of popularity among the technoscenti.  I
> suspected that BASIC programmers drank it.  I thought it was
> revolting.
> 

When I was at Microsoft, I noted that although we had free access to colas from both sides of the aisle (Pepsi and Coke), Jolt was not offered.  My theory: they figured we'd drink ourselves to death by liver dysfunction.  Mountain Dew was hazardous enough....  -- Ian