On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:37:42PM -0500, Fred wrote: > On Friday 03 February 2006 17:49, Jeff Kinz wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 04:29:58PM -0500, Tom Buskey wrote: > > > The US Navy is trying to do (did?) it on ships. My aunt was working on > > > it. They were able to save tons of weight on each destoyer, etc by > > > converting away from paper to electronic media. That means they can > > > make the ship faster/less draft/carry more weapons & ammo. > > > > I heard about something like that, all manuals were digitized and they > > had a giant laser printer on board that would print and bind books > > on an as needed basis. Incredibly quickly. > > > > And when you were done with the manual, you just dropped it on the enemy > > to get rid of it. > > Couldn't they just download the manual to a PDA? Not that I want to make the > military even more efficient at killing people, but...
This was years before PDA's existed fred, possibly decades. Now they don't print them out, they are accessed remotely and displayed on a personal "heads-up display" that they wear. -- Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. speech recognition software may have been used to create this e-mail "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Brandeis To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss